CVE-2016-9916

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.

Date published : 2016-12-29

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=898ae90a44551d25b8e956fd87372d303c82fe68