CVE-2016-9106

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.0
Exploit probability—
ProductQemu
PublishedDec 9, 2016
First seenDec 9, 2016

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
qemu qemuv ≤ 2.7.1—
opensuse leap42.2—
debian debian_linux8.0—

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