Memory Leak Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.8+dfsg-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Scope
Changed
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (26th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-QEMU-427531
- published 29 Dec 2016
- disclosed 29 Dec 2016
Introduced: 29 Dec 2016
CVE-2016-9915 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 hw/9pfs/9p-handle.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local privileged guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption and possibly QEMU process crash) by leveraging a missing cleanup operation in the handle backend.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9915
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=971f406b77a6eb84e0ad27dcc416b663765aee30
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-9915
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=971f406b77a6eb84e0ad27dcc416b663765aee30