CVE-2016-9602: unspecified Qemu

Symlink following in Qemu

CVSS 7.6 HighEPSS 0.036 · 89th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 26 Apr 2018, 19:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
unspecified	Qemu	affected qemu 2.9

Identifiers

CVE-2016-9602

CNA

redhat

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-59

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.6	High	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.036, the 89th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 26 Apr 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg04347.html mailing-listmlist
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037604 vdb-entrysectrack
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html mailing-listmlist
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9602 confirm
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/17/12 mailing-listmlist
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-01/msg06225.html mailing-listmlist
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-01 vendor-advisorygentoo
www.securityfocus.com/bid/95461 vdb-entrybid

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.