Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2016-9914
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
0.43%
Original Filing — NVD Description
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.