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CVE-2016-9911
Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the USB EHCI Emulation support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while processing…
Medium6.5EPSS 0.38%
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.38% · top 68% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (6)
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180906 [SECURITY] [DLA 1497-1] qemu security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 94762 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2392 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-201701-49 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2408 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20161208 Re: CVE request: Qemu: usb: ehci: memory leakage in ehci_init_transfer (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
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