Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.8+dfsg-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
Scope
Changed
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (26th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-QEMU-427145
- published 9 Dec 2016
- disclosed 9 Dec 2016
Introduced: 9 Dec 2016
CVE-2016-9106 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable
qemu
to version 1:2.8+dfsg-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu
package and not the qemu
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:unstable
relevant fixed versions and status.
Memory leak in the v9fs_write function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging failure to free an IO vector.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9106
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=fdfcc9aeea1492f4b819a24c94dfb678145b1bf9
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9106
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg02623.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/28/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/30/10
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93964
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-9106
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fdfcc9aeea1492f4b819a24c94dfb678145b1bf9