CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2016-9101 — Qemu Qemu security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6

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.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6 (3.1)
Published
2016-12-09
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-772

Affected products

  • qemu / qemu
  • opensuse / leap / 42.2
  • debian / debian_linux / 8.0

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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