vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-9105): QEMU vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 9, 2016
Added
Nov 9, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-kvmubuntu-upgrade-qemu-systemubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-aarch64ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-armubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-mipsubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-miscubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-ppcubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-s390xubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-sparcubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-x86
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