CVE-2016-9916

CVSS V2 Medium 4.9 CVSS V3 Medium 6.5
Description
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-9916
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2016-12-29T22:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2023-02-13T04:50:17
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-401 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/401.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.8.0
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.8.0:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.8.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 4.9
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 6.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 6.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2
  • Impact Score
  • 4
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg03278.html Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/7 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/11 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=898ae90a44551d25b8e956fd87372d303c82fe68 Issue Tracking Patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94729 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9916
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9916
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:20:24 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 12:38:27 2016-12-29T22:59Z 2016-12-29T22:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 12:38:27 2020-11-10T19:21:34 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 12:38:27 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated
2023-02-13 05:07:28 2023-02-13T04:50:17 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-13 05:07:28 Analyzed Modified Vulnerability Status updated