CVE-2016-9106

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CVSS 3.1

6.0 medium

EPSS

<1%p33

Published

Dec 9, 2016 (Dec 9, 2016)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

Memory leak in the v9fs_write function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by leveraging failure to free an IO vector.

Vendors: qemu opensuse debian
Products: qemu, leap, debian linux
Weakness: CWE-772
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.4%)

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