CVE-2016-9102

Description

Memory leak in the v9fs_xattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of Txattrcreate messages with the same fid number.

Risk Information

Base Score

6.0

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.101

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Multiple vulnerabilities affected in QEMU 2.5.0	Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in QEMU 2.5.0	Windows

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234