CVE-2017-8086: Debian Linux

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

Memory leak in the v9fs_list_xattr function in hw/9pfs/9p-xattr.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving the orig_value variable.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.8.1; version 2.9.0 only

Published 2017-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.