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CVE-2016-9916

Qemu: 9pfs: memory leakage via proxy/handle callbacks

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · November 21, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS 2.0 · 2.3
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-244 · Improper Clearing of Heap Memory Before Release ('Heap Inspection')