Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2016-9101

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.

  • Published: Dec 9, 2016
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2016-9101
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 2.1
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
qemu / qemu - 2.7.1.x
opensuse / leap 42.2 42.2.x
debian / debian_linux 8.0 8.0.x