CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9907
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-772
Description
Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the USB redirector usb-guest support is vulnerable to a memory leakage flaw. It could occur while destroying the USB redirector in 'usbredir_handle_destroy'. A guest user/process could use this issue to leak host memory, resulting in DoS for a host.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.7.1)
• 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
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94759 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94759 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory