PT-2016-3001 · Qemu+2 · Qemu+2
Prasad J Pandit
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Published
2016-12-29
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Updated
2023-02-12
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CVE-2016-9914
CVSS v3.1
6.5
Medium
| Vector | AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
QEMU (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue is related to a memory leak in the hw/9pfs/9p.c file of QEMU, which can be exploited by local privileged guest OS users to cause a denial of service. This is achieved by leveraging a missing cleanup operation in FileOperations, leading to host memory consumption and possibly causing the QEMU process to crash.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploit
DoS
Memory Leak
Resource Exhaustion
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Related Identifiers
Affected Products
Alt Linux
Qemu
Ubuntu