CVE-2016-9916

QEMU 9pfs vulnerability CVE-2016-9916: memory leak in hw/9pfs/9p-proxy.c due to missing cleanup in the proxy backend, allowing a local privileged guest to exhaust host memory and potentially crash the QEMU process. Affected: QEMU with 9p filesystem (proxy backend). Root cause: missing cleanup ope...

PT-2016-2999 · Qemu +2 · Qemu +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: QEMU affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to a memory leak in the hw/9pfs/9p-proxy.c function of the QEMU hardware emulator's proxy backend service. This leak can be exploited by a local user of the guest operatin...