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CVE-2016-9914

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 EPSS 0.43%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2016-12-29 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2016-9914
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
0.43%

Original Filing — NVD Description

Memory leak in hw/9pfs/9p.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 FileOperations.