CVE-2016-9915

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7
• http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=971f406b77a6eb84e0ad27dcc416b663765aee30

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7
• http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=971f406b77a6eb84e0ad27dcc416b663765aee30

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