CVE-2016-8578: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The v9fs_iov_vunmarshal function in fsdev/9p-iov-marshal.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) by sending an empty string parameter to a 9P operation.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.2 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.7.1

Published 2016-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.