FKIE_CVE-2016-9911

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-12-23 22:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:56
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/5Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94762Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/5Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94762Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
qemu qemu *
debian debian_linux 8.0
redhat openstack 6.0
redhat openstack 7.0
redhat openstack 8
redhat openstack 9
redhat openstack 10
redhat openstack 11
redhat virtualization 4.0
redhat enterprise_linux 7.0
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