FKIE_CVE-2016-9914

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-12-29 22:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:56
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=702dbcc274e2ca43be20ba64c758c0ca57dab91d
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=702dbcc274e2ca43be20ba64c758c0ca57dab91d
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
qemu qemu *
qemu qemu 2.8.0
qemu qemu 2.8.0
debian debian_linux 8.0

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          "vendor": "n/a",
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              "version": "n/a"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "source": "secalert@redhat.com"
    }
  ],
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              "versionEndIncluding": "2.7.1",
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            },
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            }
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        }
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    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "Fuga de memoria en hw/9pfs/9p.c en QEMU (tambi\u00e9n conocido como Quick Emulator) permite a usuarios locales privilegiados del SO hu\u00e9sped provocar una denegaci\u00f3n de servicio (consumo de memoria del host y posiblemente ca\u00edda de proceso QEMU) aprovechando una operaci\u00f3n de limpieza perdida en FileOperations."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2016-9914",
  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T00:56:46.537",
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          "baseScore": 4.9,
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          "version": "2.0"
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        "exploitabilityScore": 3.9,
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}



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