vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-9104: qemu, qemu-kvm -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 3, 2016
Added
Mar 31, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) v9fs_xattr_read and (2) v9fs_xattr_write functions in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allow local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) via a crafted offset, which triggers an out-of-bounds access.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-qemudebian-upgrade-qemu-kvm
Title
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