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CVE-2016-8577

Date: November 4, 2016

Memory leak in the v9fs_read function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors related to an I/O read operation.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (12)

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8577
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8577
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/7
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8577
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e95c9a493a5a8d6f969e86c9f19f80ffe6587e19
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/13
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-8577
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93473
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-8577

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

CWE-772

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): HIGH
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): CHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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