CVE-2016-9916

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

6.5

MODERATE

Vector

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

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.071

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