DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9916

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9916
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9916.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9916
Upstream
Published
2016-12-29T22:59:00Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:48Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / qemu

Package

Name
qemu
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/qemu?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:2.8+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / qemu

Package

Name
qemu
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/qemu?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:2.8+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / qemu

Package

Name
qemu
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/qemu?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:2.8+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / qemu

Package

Name
qemu
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/qemu?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:2.8+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}