suse · CVE-2016-9915

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Priority: low Published: 2021-05-30 13:48:39 UTC Updated: 2025-10-05 02:32:17 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-9915 severity low: SUSE including 27 source package names (kvm, qemu, …), 166 product×package rows across 19 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1, … (19 product lines)): Known Not Affected 166.

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.

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