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CVE-2016-9915
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-12-29T22:59:00.667 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:56:46.650

Summary

Memory leak in hw/9pfs/9p-handle.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 handle backend.

Affected products

qemu — qemu

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References

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