CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9106
6.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-772
Description
Memory leak in the v9fs_write function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging failure to free an IO vector.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.7.1)
• opensuse leap 42.2
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fdfcc9aeea1492f4b819a24c94dfb678145b1bf9 git.qemu.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/28/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/30/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93964 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg02623.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fdfcc9aeea1492f4b819a24c94dfb678145b1bf9 git.qemu.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/28/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/30/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93964 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg02623.html Patch, Third Party Advisory