CVE-2016-9102

MEDIUM 6.0CVE-2016-9102 · Published 09/12/2016 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-9102 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.0) vulnerability affecting qemu (qemu).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.40%, higher than 34.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
qemu qemu	`≤ 2.7.1`	No fix yet

Description

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.

References

git.qemu.org
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/27/15 · Mailing List
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/30/6 · Mailing List
securityfocus.com/bid/93962 · Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html · Mailing List
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg01861.html · Patch
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11 · Third Party Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

qemu

≤ 2.7.1

No fix yet

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