CVE-2016-9915
First published: Thu Dec 29 2016(Updated: )
Memory leak in hw/9pfs/9p-handle.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 handle backend.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| QEMU qemu | <=2.7.1 | |
| QEMU qemu | =2.8.0-rc0 | |
| QEMU qemu | =2.8.0-rc1 | |
| Debian Debian Linux | =8.0 |
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Reference Links
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=971f406b77a6eb84e0ad27dcc416b663765aee30
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/references
- agent/severity
- agent/weakness
- agent/author
- agent/event
- agent/type
- agent/description
- agent/remedy
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/tags
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/qemu
- canonical/qemu qemu
- version/qemu qemu/2.7.1
- version/qemu qemu/2.8.0-rc0
- version/qemu qemu/2.8.0-rc1
- vendor/debian
- canonical/debian debian linux
- version/debian debian linux/8.0