CVE-2016-9907

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-772

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/3Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94759Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/3Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94759Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Dec 23, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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