qemu was updated to fix several issues.

These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2016-9102: Memory leak in the v9fs_xattrcreate     function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in allowed local guest OS     administrators to cause a denial of service (memory     consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number     of Txattrcreate messages with the same fid number     (bsc#1014256).

  - CVE-2016-9103: The v9fs_xattrcreate function in     hw/9pfs/9p.c in allowed local guest OS administrators to     obtain sensitive host heap memory information by reading     xattribute values writing to them (bsc#1007454).

  - CVE-2016-9381: Improper processing of shared rings     allowing guest administrators take over the qemu     process, elevating their privilege to that of the qemu     process (bsc#1009109)

  - CVE-2016-9776: The ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller     emulator support was vulnerable to an infinite loop     issue while receiving packets in 'mcf_fec_receive'. A     privileged user/process inside guest could have used     this issue to crash the Qemu process on the host leading     to DoS (bsc#1013285).

  - CVE-2016-9845: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support as     vulnerable to an information leakage issue while     processing the 'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET_INFO' command.
    A guest user/process could have used this flaw to leak     contents of the host memory (bsc#1013767).

  - CVE-2016-9846: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue while updating     the cursor data in update_cursor_data_virgl. A guest     user/process could have used this flaw to leak host     memory bytes, resulting in DoS for the host     (bsc#1013764).

  - CVE-2016-9907: The USB redirector usb-guest support was     vulnerable to a memory leakage flaw when destroying the     USB redirector in 'usbredir_handle_destroy'. A guest     user/process could have used this issue to leak host     memory, resulting in DoS for a host (bsc#1014109).

  - CVE-2016-9908: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to an information leakage issue while     processing the 'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET' command. A     guest user/process could have used this flaw to leak     contents of the host memory (bsc#1014514).

  - CVE-2016-9911: The USB EHCI Emulation support was     vulnerable to a memory leakage issue while processing     packet data in 'ehci_init_transfer'. A guest     user/process could have used this issue to leak host     memory, resulting in DoS for the host (bsc#1014111).

  - CVE-2016-9912: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue while     destroying gpu resource object in     'virtio_gpu_resource_destroy'. A guest user/process     could have used this flaw to leak host memory bytes,     resulting in DoS for the host (bsc#1014112).

  - CVE-2016-9913: VirtFS was vulnerable to memory leakage     issue via its '9p-handle' or '9p-proxy' backend drivers.
    A privileged user inside guest could have used this flaw     to leak host memory, thus affecting other services on     the host and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on     the host (bsc#1014110).

These non-security issues were fixed :

  - Fixed uint64 property parsing and add regression tests     (bsc#937125)

  - Added a man page for kvm_stat

  - Fix crash in vte (bsc#1008519)

  - Various upstream commits targeted towards stable     releases (bsc#1013341)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The v9fs_xattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS     administrators to obtain sensitive host heap memory information by reading xattribute values before     writing to them. (CVE-2016-9103)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3125-1 advisory.

    Zhenhao Hong discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio module. A privileged attacker inside the     guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2016-5403)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWARE VMXNET3 network card emulation support. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of     service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-6833,     CVE-2016-6834, CVE-2016-6888)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWARE VMXNET3 network card emulation support. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of     service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMU is used     with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. This issue only affected Ubuntu     14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-6835)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWARE VMXNET3 network card emulation support. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to possibly to obtain sensitive host memory.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-6836)

    Felix Wilhelm discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Plan 9 File System (9pfs) support. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to possibly to obtain sensitive host files. (CVE-2016-7116)

    Li Qiang and Tom Victor discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI bus     emulation support. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash,     resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu     16.10. (CVE-2016-7155)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI bus emulation support. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of     service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7156,     CVE-2016-7421)

    Tom Victor discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled LSI SAS1068 host bus emulation support. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7157)

    Hu Chaojian discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled xlnx.xps-ethernetlite emulation support. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service,     or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with     libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2016-7161)

    Qinghao Tang and Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the VMWare VGA module. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2016-7170)

    Qinghao Tang and Zhenhao Hong discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio module. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7422)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled LSI SAS1068 host bus emulation support. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7423)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB xHCI controller emulation support. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7466)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller emulation support. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of     service. (CVE-2016-7908)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled AMD PC-Net II emulation support. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2016-7909)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU support. A privileged attacker inside the     guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7994)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB EHCI emulation support. A privileged attacker inside     the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7995)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB xHCI controller support. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-8576)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Plan 9 File System (9pfs) support. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-8577, CVE-2016-8578)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Rocker switch emulation support. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-8668)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Intel HDA controller emulation support. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial     of service. (CVE-2016-8909)

    Andrew Henderson discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled RTL8139 ethernet controller emulation support. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in     a denial of service. (CVE-2016-8910)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Intel i8255x ethernet controller emulation support. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in     a denial of service. (CVE-2016-9101)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Plan 9 File System (9pfs) support. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of     service. (CVE-2016-9102, CVE-2016-9104, CVE-2016-9105)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Plan 9 File System (9pfs) support. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to possibly to obtain sensitive host memory. (CVE-2016-9103)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Plan 9 File System (9pfs) support. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of     service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-9106)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
96623	openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2017-116)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	1/19/2017	1/5/2026	high
220316	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-9103	Nessus	Misc.	3/4/2025	7/27/2026	medium
94669	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-3125-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	11/10/2016	9/3/2025	critical

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