CVE-2016-9914

6.5 MEDIUM

Published: December 29, 2016 Modified: May 06, 2026

Description

Memory leak in hw/9pfs/9p.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 FileOperations.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=702dbcc274e2ca43be20ba64c758c0ca57dab91d

Source: secalert@redhat.com

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

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

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

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

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

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

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

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Third Party Advisory

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

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Patch Vendor Advisory

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

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Third Party Advisory

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=702dbcc274e2ca43be20ba64c758c0ca57dab91d