Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting qemu package, versions <2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.33
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EPSS
0.06% (28th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1404-QEMU-428445
- published 23 Dec 2016
- disclosed 23 Dec 2016
Introduced: 23 Dec 2016
CVE-2016-9911 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 qemu to version 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.33 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu package and not the qemu package as distributed by Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 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://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-9911
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9911
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
- 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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94762
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9911
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402272
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