vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-9915: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 29, 2016
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

Memory leak in hw/9pfs/9p-handle.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 the handle backend.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-qemu
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