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CVE-2016-9907

Qemu: usb: redirector: memory leakage when destroying redirector

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · November 7, 2016

Updated · November 2, 2026

Description

Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the USB redirector usb-guest support is vulnerable to a memory leakage flaw. It could occur while destroying the USB redirector in 'usbredir_handle_destroy'. A guest user/process could use this issue to leak host memory, resulting in DoS for a host.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS 2.0 · 2.3
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-244 · Improper Clearing of Heap Memory Before Release