vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-10155: qemu -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 15, 2017
Added
Feb 20, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Memory leak in hw/watchdog/wdt_i6300esb.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of device unplug operations.

Solution

debian-upgrade-qemu
Title
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