CVE-2016-9102
First published: Fri Dec 09 2016(Updated: )
Memory leak in the v9fs_xattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of Txattrcreate messages with the same fid number.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| QEMU qemu | <=2.7.1 | |
| Debian Debian Linux | =8.0 |
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Reference Links
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ff55e94d23ae94c8628b0115320157c763eb3e06
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/27/15
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/30/6
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93962
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg01861.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/references
- agent/severity
- agent/author
- agent/type
- agent/weakness
- agent/tags
- agent/event
- agent/description
- agent/remedy
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/qemu
- canonical/qemu qemu
- version/qemu qemu/2.7.1
- vendor/debian
- canonical/debian debian linux
- version/debian debian linux/8.0