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CVE-2016-9916

CVE-2016-9916

EPSS 0.4%
Memory leak in hw/9pfs/9p-proxy.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 proxy backend.
Affected products
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References
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=898ae90a44551d25b8e956fd87372d303c82fe68https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729