CVE-2016-9106medium
Description
Memory leak in the v9fs_write function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging failure to free an IO vector.
References
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=fdfcc9aeea1492f4b819a24c94dfb678145b1bf9
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/28/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/30/10
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93964
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg02623.html
Details
Source: MITRE
Published: 2016-12-09
Updated: 2020-10-15
Type: CWE-772
Risk Information
CVSS v2
Base Score: 2.1
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Impact Score: 2.9
Exploitability Score: 3.9
Severity: LOW
CVSS v3
Base Score: 6
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Impact Score: 4
Exploitability Score: 1.5
Severity: MEDIUM