CVE-2016-9907 (GCVE-0-2016-9907)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-12-23 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 03:07
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 81/100 over 996 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94759 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/3 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Date Public
2016-12-08 00:00
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