Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9914

6.5
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

Memory leak 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) by leveraging a missing cleanup operation in FileOperations.
Published Date December 29, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory