FKIE_CVE-2016-9915
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-12-29 22:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:56
Severity
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.
References
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