CVE-2016-9911

Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the USB EHCI Emulation support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while processing packet data in 'ehci_init_transfer'. A guest user/process could use this issue to leak host memory, resulting in DoS for a host.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2016-12-23

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-772

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Qemu (Qemu)
• Openstack (Redhat)
• Virtualization (Redhat)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94762
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49