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CVE-2016-9102
MEDIUM · CVSS 6
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-12-09T22:59:07.670 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:55:31.183

Summary

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.

Affected products

qemu — qemu

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References

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