CVE-2016-8577 in QEMU

Summary

Memory leak in the v9fs_read function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors related to an I/O read operation.

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• Reservation: 10/10/2016
• Disclosure: 11/04/2016
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-93308
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-399 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 6.0
• EPSS: 0.00111
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8577
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8577
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-8577/