CVE-2016-7116: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to access host files outside the export path via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified string.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.6.2; version 2.7.0 only

Published 2016-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.