CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9916
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
Memory leak in hw/9pfs/9p-proxy.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 proxy backend.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (< 2.8.0)
• qemu qemu 2.8.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=898ae90a44551d25b8e956fd87372d303c82fe68 git.qemu.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=898ae90a44551d25b8e956fd87372d303c82fe68 git.qemu.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory