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cve[email protected]CVE-2016-9916
HistoryDec 29, 2016 - 10:59 p.m.

CVE-2016-9916

2016-12-2922:59:00
CWE-401
web.nvd.nist.gov
54
4
cve-2016-9916
qemu
memory leak
denial of service
9pfs
proxy backend

4.9 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack 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

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

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

26.9%

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.

Affected configurations

NVD
Node
qemuqemuRange<2.8.0
OR
qemuqemuMatch2.8.0rc0
OR
qemuqemuMatch2.8.0rc1
Node
debiandebian_linuxMatch8.0
CPENameOperatorVersion
qemu:qemuqemult2.8.0

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4.9 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack 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

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

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

26.9%