CVE-2016-9916
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.9 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
26.1%
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.
| CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu:qemu | qemu | lt | 2.8.0 |
| debian:debian_linux | debian debian linux | eq | 8.0 |
References
git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=898ae90a44551d25b8e956fd87372d303c82fe68
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
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6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.9 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
26.1%