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CVE-2016-9916 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.07% · 21.6th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.07%
21.6th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSqemu0, 1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu5, 1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu6
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSqemu0, 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9, 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu10

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