CVE-2016-9916 in QEMU

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 12/08/2016
• Disclosure: 12/29/2016
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-94729 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-400 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 4.9
• EPSS: 0.00071
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9916
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9916
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-9916/