Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9102

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-09 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 02:42:10
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Memory leak in the v9fs_xattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of Txattrcreate messages with the same fid number.