CVE-2016-9911

CVSS V2 Medium 4.9 CVSS V3 Medium 6.5
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-9911
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2016-12-23T22:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2023-02-13T04:50:16
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-772 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/772.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
AND
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.7.1
AND
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
AND
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
AND
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:virtualization:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 4.9
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 6.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 6.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2
  • Impact Score
  • 4
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/5 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94762 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9911
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402272
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9911
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9911
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 06:58:24 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 12:35:15 2016-12-23T22:59Z 2016-12-23T22:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 12:35:15 2021-08-04T17:15:35 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 12:35:15 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated
2023-02-02 17:05:46 2023-02-02T16:17:57 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-02 17:05:46 Analyzed Modified Vulnerability Status updated
2023-02-02 17:05:46 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. CVE-2016-9911 Qemu: usb: ehci: memory leakage in ehci_init_transfer Description updated
2023-02-02 17:05:49 References updated
2023-02-13 05:07:28 2023-02-13T04:50:16 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-13 05:07:28 CVE-2016-9911 Qemu: usb: ehci: memory leakage in ehci_init_transfer 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. Description updated