CWE Code: 400
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 4.9
CWE Name:  Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Summary: memory leak in hw/9pfs/9p.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 fileoperations.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): NONE/NONE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2016-12-29
Last Modified Date: 2018-09-07