CVE-2016-9907
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
Red Hat Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | Not affected | — |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94759
- 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
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9907.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9907
CWEs
CWE-772
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.