6.5

CVE-2016-9913: qemu

CVSS: 6.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2016-9913DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9913
Published 29-12-2016Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-9913 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in qemu. EPSS estimates a 0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.41%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 2
SUSE-SU-2017:0127-1USN-3261-1

Timeline

  1. 29-12-2016
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Memory leak in the v9fs_device_unrealize_common function in hw/9pfs/9p.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) via vectors involving the order of resource cleanup.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 3 sources · 3 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.41%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

33%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.41% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.41%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • qemu< 1:2.8+dfsg-1
Qemu1 product
  • qemu≤ 2.7.1 | 2.8.0:rc0 | 2.8.0:rc1
Ubuntu1 product
  • qemu< 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.33 | < 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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