vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-9102: 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
Dec 22, 2025

Description

Memory leak in the v9fs_xattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of Txattrcreate messages with the same fid number.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-qemu
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