CVE-2016-8577

MEDIUM

QEMU - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm

Description

Memory leak in the v9fs_read function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors related to an I/O read operation.

References (7)

[Patch] http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e95c9a493a5a8d6f969e86c9f19f80ffe6587e19

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/13

[Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/7

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93473

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11

Scores

CVSS v3 6.0

EPSS 0.0011

EPSS Percentile 29.4%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-772

Status published

Affected Products (4)

qemu/qemu < 2.7.1

debian/debian_linux

opensuse/leap

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Nov 04, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026