CVE-2016-9101

MEDIUM

QEMU - Memory Corruption

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)

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

[Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/27/14

[Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/30/5

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93957

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

[Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg03024.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49

Scores

CVSS v3 6.0

EPSS 0.0012

EPSS Percentile 30.2%

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

opensuse/leap

debian/debian_linux

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Dec 09, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026