CVE-2016-9102

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

Memory leak in the v9fs_xattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of Txattrcreate messages with the same fid number.

Memory leak in the v9fs_xattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of Txattrcreate messages with the same fid number.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-12-09 22:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-12-01 11:29:00

Affected Software

QEMU

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=ff55e94d23ae94c8628b0115320157c763eb3e06

Issue Tracking, Patch

[oss-security] 20161028 CVE request Qemu: 9pfs: memory leakage when creating extended attribute

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

[oss-security] 20161030 Re: CVE request Qemu: 9pfs: memory leakage when creating extended attribute

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

93962

[debian-lts-announce] 20181130 [SECURITY] [DLA 1599-1] qemu security update

[qemu-devel] 20161010 Re: [PATCH] 9pfs: fix memory leak in v9fs_xattrcreate

Patch, Vendor Advisory

GLSA-201611-11

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