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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-9105: qemu-kvm security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-9105: qemu-kvm security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/09/2016
Created
12/05/2019
Added
12/04/2019
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

Memory leak in the v9fs_link function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a reference to the source fid object.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-qemu-img
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-qemu-kvm
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-qemu-kvm-common

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