CVE-2016-9102: Debian Linux

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

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.

Affected products

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

Published 2016-12-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.