Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9914

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-29 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 03:07:31
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Memory leak in hw/9pfs/9p.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 FileOperations.