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CVE-2016-8577

Memory leak in the v9fs_read function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory co…

Impact

Memory leak in the v9fs_read function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors related to an I/O read operation.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
QemuQemu
through 2.7.1
DebianDebian Linux
Version 8.0
OpensuseLeap
Version 42.2

Weakness classification

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