Improper Clearing of Heap Memory Before Release ('Heap Inspection') Affecting qemu-kvm-common-rhev package, versions <10:2.9.0-14.el7


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-QEMUKVMCOMMONRHEV-4455088
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed8 Nov 2016

Introduced: 8 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-9911  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-244  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 qemu-kvm-common-rhev to version 10:2.9.0-14.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:2392.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-kvm-common-rhev package and not the qemu-kvm-common-rhev 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.

CVSS Scores

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