CVE-2016-9911 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Qemu

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective LifetimeCWE-244 — Heap Inspection11 documents8 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 63.92%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
QemuDebian LinuxRedhat Openstack+1 more
Timeline
PublishedDec 23
Latest updateMay 13

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:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.0 | Impact: 4.0

Affected Packages4 packages

▶Debianqemu/qemu< 1:2.8+dfsg-1+3
▶NVDqemu/qemu2.7.1
▶NVDredhat/openstack6 versions+5

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0

Patches

Patch: www.openwall.com ↗Patch: www.openwall.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-hq78-7w28-92xm: Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the USB EHCI Emulation support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2016-9911: Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the USB EHCI Emulation support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue↗2016-12-23
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CVEList
CVE-2016-9911: Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the USB EHCI Emulation support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue↗2016-12-23
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
QEMU vulnerabilities↗2017-04-20
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Red Hat
Qemu: usb: ehci: memory leakage in ehci_init_transfer↗2016-11-08
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Debian
CVE-2016-9911: qemu - Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the USB EHCI Emulation support is vulnerable to...↗2016
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9911 Qemu: usb: ehci: memory leakage in ehci_init_transfer↗2016-12-07
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9911 Qemu: usb: ehci: memory leakage in ehci_init_transfer [fedora-all]↗2016-12-07
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Bugzilla
CVE-2014-9912 php: stack buffer overflow in locale_get_display_name↗2016-11-29
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Bugzilla
CVE-2014-9911 icu: stack-based buffer overflow in uloc_getDisplayName↗2016-10-11
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