CVE-2016-9101

MEDIUM

QEMU < 2.7.1 - Denial of Service via Repeated i8255x NIC Device Unplug

Title source: llm

Description

Memory leak in hw/net/eepro100.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) by repeatedly unplugging an i8255x (PRO100) NIC device.

References (7)

Core 7

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/30/5

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/27/14

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg03024.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93957

Scores

CVSS v3 6.0

EPSS 0.0012

EPSS Percentile 29.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Details

CWE

CWE-772

Status published

Products (3)

debian/debian_linux 8.0

opensuse/leap 42.2

qemu/qemu < 2.7.1

Published Dec 09, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026