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HistoryNov 04, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2016-8577

2016-11-0400:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
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6 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

2.1 Low

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

25.9%

Memory leak in the v9fs_read 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 related to an I/O read operation.

Bugs

Notes

Author Note
tyhicks Privileged user inside the guest can trigger a DoS of the QEMU host process
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu14.04noarchqemu< 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.30UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchqemu< 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.6UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.10noarchqemu< 1:2.6.1+dfsg-0ubuntu5.1UNKNOWN

6 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

2.1 Low

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

25.9%