VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-9915

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.44%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2016-12-29
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Primary references