Improper Clearing of Heap Memory Before Release ('Heap Inspection') Affecting libcacard-tools package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (28th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-LIBCACARDTOOLS-1358617
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 8 Nov 2016
Introduced: 8 Nov 2016
CVE-2016-9911 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 libcacard-tools.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcacard-tools package and not the libcacard-tools package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94762
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9911
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/5
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402272
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