CVE-2016-9106

Impact

Memory leak in the v9fs_write function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging failure to free an IO vector.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fdfcc9aeea1492f4b819a24c94dfb678145b1bf9
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/28/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/30/10
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93964
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg02623.html
• http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fdfcc9aeea1492f4b819a24c94dfb678145b1bf9
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/28/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/30/10
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93964
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg02623.html