CVE-2016-9911: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.7.1
• Red Hat Openstack: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 8 only; version 9 only; version 10 only; version 11 only
• Red Hat Virtualization: version 4.0 only

Published 2016-12-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.