CVE-2016-9911
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v2
4.9
VIR risk
6.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9911
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9911.html
Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/5
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | 8.0 | affected | |
| rhel | 7.0 | not-affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
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
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9911.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9911
CWEs
CWE-772
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.