vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-9101: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 9, 2016
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Memory leak in hw/net/eepro100.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) by repeatedly unplugging an i8255x (PRO100) NIC device.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-qemu
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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