CVE-2016-9916

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium

CVSS6.5

Exploit probability—

Product

Qemu

PublishedDec 29, 2016

First seenDec 29, 2016

How to fix

Update

qemu qemu2.8.0 or later

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
qemu qemu	v < 2.8.0, 2.8.0	2.8.0
debian debian_linux	8.0	—

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