# CVE-2016-9911: Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the USB EHCI Emulation support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2016-12-23 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

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## References

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94762
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/5

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