PublicDateAtUSN: 2016-12-29
Candidate: CVE-2016-9915
PublicDate: 2016-12-29 22:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9915
 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3261-1
Description:
 Memory leak in hw/9pfs/9p-handle.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 handle backend.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=847496
Priority: low
Discovered-by: Li Qiang
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H [6.5 MEDIUM]
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H [6.5 MEDIUM]

Patches_qemu-kvm:
upstream_qemu-kvm: needed
precise_qemu-kvm: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_qemu-kvm: ignored (end of ESM support, was needed)
trusty_qemu-kvm: DNE
trusty/esm_qemu-kvm: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_qemu-kvm: DNE
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_qemu-kvm: DNE
xenial_qemu-kvm: DNE
yakkety_qemu-kvm: DNE
zesty_qemu-kvm: DNE
artful_qemu-kvm: DNE
bionic_qemu-kvm: DNE
cosmic_qemu-kvm: DNE
disco_qemu-kvm: DNE
eoan_qemu-kvm: DNE
focal_qemu-kvm: DNE
groovy_qemu-kvm: DNE
hirsute_qemu-kvm: DNE
devel_qemu-kvm: DNE

Patches_qemu:
 upstream: http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=971f406b77a6eb84e0ad27dcc416b663765aee30
upstream_qemu: needed
precise_qemu: DNE
precise/esm_qemu: DNE
trusty_qemu: released (2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.33)
trusty/esm_qemu: released (2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.33)
vivid/ubuntu-core_qemu: DNE
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_qemu: DNE
xenial_qemu: released (1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11)
esm-infra/xenial_qemu: released (1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11)
yakkety_qemu: released (1:2.6.1+dfsg-0ubuntu5.4)
zesty_qemu: not-affected (1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2)
artful_qemu: not-affected (1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2)
bionic_qemu: not-affected (1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2)
cosmic_qemu: not-affected (1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2)
disco_qemu: not-affected (1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2)
eoan_qemu: not-affected (1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2)
focal_qemu: not-affected (1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2)
groovy_qemu: not-affected (1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2)
hirsute_qemu: not-affected (1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2)
devel_qemu: not-affected (1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2)