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.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=898ae90a44551d25b8e956fd87372d303c82fe68
Source: MITRE
Published: 2016-12-29
Updated: 2023-02-13
Type: CWE-401
Base Score: 4.9
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Impact Score: 6.9
Exploitability Score: 3.9
Severity: MEDIUM
Base Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Impact Score: 4
Exploitability Score: 2
Severity: MEDIUM