CVE-2016-9916: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Memory leak in hw/9pfs/9p-proxy.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) by leveraging a missing cleanup operation in the proxy backend.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Qemu Qemu: before 2.8.0 (fixed in 2.8.0); version 2.8.0 only

Published 2016-12-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.