CVE-2016-9911 Information

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 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5