CVE-2016-9914

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-401

Affected software

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

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=702dbcc274e2ca43be20ba64c758c0ca57dab91d
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=702dbcc274e2ca43be20ba64c758c0ca57dab91d
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Dec 29, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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