CVE-2016-9106

MediumCVSS 6.0/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Memory leak in the v9fs_write function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging failure to free an IO vector.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.0/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-772

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fdfcc9aeea1492f4b819a24c94dfb678145b1bf9
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/28/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/30/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93964Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg02623.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fdfcc9aeea1492f4b819a24c94dfb678145b1bf9
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/28/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/30/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93964Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg02623.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Dec 9, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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