CVE-2016-9916
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9916
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9916.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-9916
- Downstream
- Published
- 2016-12-29T22:59:00.700Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-08T05:49:38.854882582Z
- Severity
-
- 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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.
- Database specific
{ "unresolved_ranges": [ { "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "8.0" }, { "last_affected": "8.0" } ], "cpes": [ "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "source": "CPE_STRING", "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux" } ] }- References
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- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=898ae90a44551d25b8e956fd87372d303c82fe68
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html
Affected packages
Git / github.com/qemu/qemu
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/qemu/qemu
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixedIntroducedLast affected
- Database specific
{ "cpe": [ "cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.8.0:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.8.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "fixed": "2.8.0" }, { "introduced": "2.8.0-rc0" }, { "last_affected": "2.8.0-rc0" }, { "introduced": "2.8.0-rc1" }, { "last_affected": "2.8.0-rc1" } ], "source": [ "CPE_RANGE", "CPE_STRING" ] }
Git / gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixedIntroducedLast affected
- Database specific
{ "cpe": [ "cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.8.0:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.8.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "fixed": "2.8.0" }, { "introduced": "2.8.0-rc0" }, { "last_affected": "2.8.0-rc0" }, { "introduced": "2.8.0-rc1" }, { "last_affected": "2.8.0-rc1" } ], "source": [ "CPE_RANGE", "CPE_STRING" ] }