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Improper Clearing of Heap Memory Before Release ('Heap Inspection') Affecting qemu-guest-agent package, versions *

0.0
low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Scope Changed

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.06% (26th percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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Red Hat
3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-QEMUGUESTAGENT-1971446
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 8 Nov 2016
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Introduced: 8 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-9911 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-244 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 qemu-guest-agent.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-guest-agent package and not the qemu-guest-agent package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos: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.