CVE-2016-9921

medium
Published 2016-12-23 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Quick emulator (Qemu) built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support is vulnerable to a divide by zero issue. It could occur while copying VGA data when cirrus graphics mode was set to be VGA. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process instance on the host, resulting in DoS.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9921

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9921.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/09/1

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debian8.0affected
redhat rhel7.0not-affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:2.8+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:2.8+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:2.8+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed1:2.8+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:2.8+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.7.1"}
qemuqemu2.8.0
redhatopenstack6.0
redhatopenstack7.0
redhatopenstack8
redhatopenstack9
redhatopenstack10
redhatopenstack11
redhatvirtualization4.0

References

CWEs

CWE-369

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.