CVE-2016-9911

Aliases:DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9911
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 17
Modified
Published: 23 Dec 2016, 22:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 03:07

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
26/100
CVSS Score
6.5 MEDIUM
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.38% LOW
0% probability +0.23%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

23 Dec 2016, 22:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 03:07
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.9AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.38%• Percentile: 32%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-772•Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

    The product does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, i.e., after the resource is no longer needed.

Affected Systems

  • debian•qemu

    < 1:2.8+dfsg-1 | < 1:2.8+dfsg-1 | < 1:2.8+dfsg-1 | < 1:2.8+dfsg-1

  • debian•debian_linux

    8.0

  • qemu•qemu

    ≤ 2.7.1

  • redhat•openstack

    6.0 | 7.0 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11

  • redhat•virtualization

    4.0

References (7)