vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-9911: qemu, qemu-kvm -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 23, 2016
Added
Mar 31, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-qemudebian-upgrade-qemu-kvm
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