CVE-2016-9106

MEDIUM6.0EPSS 0.11%
Published: 12/9/2016Modified: 11/19/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2016-9106DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9106

Description

Memory leak in the v9fs_write function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging failure to free an IO vector.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1MEDIUM6.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (2)