CVE-2016-9916

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…

published December 29, 2016

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
36.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00437 · 36.7th percentile
Published
2016-12-29T22:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 DEC 22:00Z
    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…
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