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ALPINE-CVE-2016-9102

ALPINE-CVE-2016-9102 PUBLISHED CVSS 6 MEDIUM

Memory leak in the v9fs_xattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of Txattrcreate messages with the same fid number.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Alpine:v3.9qemu0, 0.10.6-r0, 0.11.0-r0
Alpine:v3.7qemu1.0-r4, 0, 0.10.6-r0
Alpine:v3.8qemu1.6.1-r0, 2.3.0-r1, 2.3.0-r2
Alpine:v3.5qemu1.0-r4, 1.0-r3, 1.5.1-r1
Alpine:v3.10qemu0.10.6-r0, 0, 0.10.6-r0
Alpine:v3.6qemu0, 0.10.6-r0, 0.10.6-r1

Timeline

  • Dec 9, 2016 CVE Published
  • Nov 19, 2025 CVE Updated
  • Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
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