Memory Leak Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.8.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3006909
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Dec 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-9105  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 2.8.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Leak. Memory leak in the v9fs_link 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 involving a reference to the source fid object.

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