CVE-2016-9916

MEDIUM

Qemu < 2.8.0 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

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.

References (7)

[Patch] http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=898ae90a44551d25b8e956fd87372d303c82fe68

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] 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

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729

[Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html

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

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0007

EPSS Percentile 21.5%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-401

Status published

Affected Products (5)

qemu/qemu < 2.8.0

qemu/qemu

qemu/qemu

debian/debian_linux

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Dec 29, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026