gsd-2016-9915
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:21
Details
Memory leak in hw/9pfs/9p-handle.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local privileged guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption and possibly QEMU process crash) by leveraging a missing cleanup operation in the handle backend.
Aliases
Aliases
CVE-2016-9915


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      "lastModifiedDate": "2023-02-12T23:27Z",
      "publishedDate": "2016-12-29T22:59Z"
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}


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