Name: CVE-2016-9914: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2016-12-29T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2016-9914, CWE-401, CVSS 6.5, EPSS 0.0043

Memory leak in hw/9pfs/9p.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 FileOperations.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.5
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade qemu	Feb 20, 2019	Dec 29, 2016
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade app-emulation/qemu.	Oct 30, 2017	Dec 29, 2016
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade qemu-system-sparcUpgrade qemu-system-armUpgrade qemu-system-ppcUpgrade qemu-systemUpgrade qemu-system-s390xUpgrade qemu-system-aarch64Upgrade qemu-system-x86Upgrade qemu-system-miscUpgrade qemu-system-mips	Apr 21, 2017	Dec 29, 2016

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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