CVE-2016-9103: Debian Linux

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

The v9fs_xattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive host heap memory information by reading xattribute values before writing to them.

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.