CVE-2016-9915

Priority
Low
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.
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
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3261-1
Bugs
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=847496
Package
Source: qemu-kvm (LP Ubuntu Debian)
Upstream:needed
Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark):DNE
Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Precise Pangolin):needed
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr):DNE
Ubuntu Touch 15.04:DNE
Ubuntu Core 15.04:DNE
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):DNE
Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak):DNE
Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus):DNE
Package
Source: qemu (LP Ubuntu Debian)
Upstream:needed
Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark):not-affected (1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2)
Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Precise Pangolin):DNE
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr):released (2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.33)
Ubuntu Touch 15.04:DNE
Ubuntu Core 15.04:DNE
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):released (1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11)
Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak):released (1:2.6.1+dfsg-0ubuntu5.4)
Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus):not-affected (1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2)
Patches:
Upstream:http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=971f406b77a6eb84e0ad27dcc416b663765aee30
More Information

Updated: 2017-05-10 22:28:55 UTC (commit 12521)