Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2016-9916

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.

  • Published: Dec 29, 2016
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2016-9916
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.5
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.9
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
qemu / qemu - 2.8.0
qemu / qemu 2.8.0-rc0 2.8.0-rc0.x
qemu / qemu 2.8.0-rc1 2.8.0-rc1.x
debian / debian_linux 8.0 8.0.x