CVE-2016-9916

medium

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

Advisories
More

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

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-12-29

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00071