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

VectorAV: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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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1043
BDU:2017-00070
CVE-2016-9914
DLA-1497-1
USN-3261-1
USN-3268-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux
Qemu
Ubuntu