CVE details
CVE-2016-9914
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.
Affected ports (1)
| Port | Package | Version | Status | Maintainer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| emulators/qemu-cheri | qemu-cheri | 0.d20260108 | unaddressed | brooks@FreeBSD.org |
Template for a VuXML entry
Range taken from the CVE record, check it before committing. make newentry in security/vuxml creates the vid.
<vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
<topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
<affects>
<package>
<name>qemu-cheri</name>
<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
</package>
</affects>
<description>
<body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>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.</p>
</body>
</description>
<references>
<cvename>CVE-2016-9914</cvename>
<url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9914</url>
</references>
<dates>
<discovery>2016-12-29</discovery>
<entry>2026-10-25</entry>
</dates>
</vuln>