PT-2016-3002 · Qemu+3 · Qemu+3

Prasad J Pandit · Published 2016-12-29 · Updated 2023-02-12 · CVE-2016-9913

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base 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 v9fs device unrealize common function, which can be exploited by local privileged guest OS users to cause a denial of service. This can lead to host memory consumption and possibly a QEMU process crash via vectors involving the order of resource cleanup.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Memory Leak

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-401

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1043

BDU:2017-00071

CVE-2016-9913

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_0194-1

SUSE-SU-2017:0127-1

USN-3261-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Qemu

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 206

• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00076 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9915 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00074 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9913 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8577 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6833 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9602 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9913 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00647 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5857 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5667 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7161 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2021-03332 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8576 · Security Note