CVE-2016-9102
Moderate
CVE-2016-9102
Memory leak in the v9fs_xattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of Txattrcreate messages with the same fid number.
Exploit probability
0.4%
Published
December 9, 2016
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
110 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2016-9102
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Memory leak in the v9fs_xattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of Txattrcreate messages with the same fid number.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ff55e94d23ae94c8628b0115320157c763eb3e06
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/27/15
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/30/6
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93962
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg01861.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11