CVE-2016-9916

Impact

Memory leak in hw/9pfs/9p-proxy.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 proxy backend.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=898ae90a44551d25b8e956fd87372d303c82fe68
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
• http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=898ae90a44551d25b8e956fd87372d303c82fe68
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49