GSD-2016-9913

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
Details
Memory leak in the v9fs_device_unrealize_common function in hw/9pfs/9p.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) via vectors involving the order of resource cleanup.
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CVE-2016-9913
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