VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-9916

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.

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 0.44%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.44%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

CVSS 3.1: 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS: 0.44% probability · 37th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-401
Affected: qemu/qemu · debian/debian linux
Source: secalert@redhat.com

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=898ae90a44551d25b8e956fd87372d303c82fe68
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=898ae90a44551d25b8e956fd87372d303c82fe68
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.