Description
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.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729
Patch, Vendor Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
Patch x_refsource_confirm
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=898ae90a44551d25b8e956fd87372d303c82fe68
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0007
EPSS Percentile
21.6%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-401
Status
published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux
8.0
qemu/qemu
2.8.0 rc0 (2 CPE variants)
qemu/qemu
< 2.8.0
Published
Dec 29, 2016
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026