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CVE-2016-9907


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.


Published

2016-12-23T22:59:00.410

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

  • Access Vector: LOCAL
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: COMPLETE
Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

6.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-772

Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application qemu qemu ≤ 2.7.1 Yes
Operating System debian debian_linux 8.0 Yes
Application redhat openstack 6.0 Yes
Application redhat openstack 7.0 Yes
Application redhat openstack 8 Yes
Application redhat openstack 9 Yes
Application redhat openstack 10 Yes
Application redhat openstack 11 Yes
Application redhat virtualization 4.0 Yes
Operating System redhat enterprise_linux 7.0 No

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