CVE-2016-9101 Denial of service in n/a
Local guest administrators can cause a denial of service in QEMU by repeatedly unplugging a specific network interface card, leading to memory exhaustion.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2016-9101?
CVE-2016-9101 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 9 Dec 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Memory leak in hw/net/eepro100.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) by repeatedly unplugging an i8255x (PRO100) NIC device.
Weakness: CWE-772
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9101?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Debian Debian Linux, Opensuse Leap, Qemu Qemu.
How do I fix CVE-2016-9101?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2016-9101 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9101 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Debian Debian Linux
Sources
Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2016-9101, DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9101, GHSA-94h6-3834-pg82, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9101.