CVE-2016-9914
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=702dbcc274e2ca43be20ba64c758c0ca57dab91d
- 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://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9914.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9914
CWEs
CWE-401
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.