CVE-2016-7995 describes a memory leak vulnerability in QEMU's ehci_process_itd function, affecting products like openSUSE Leap and QEMU. A local guest OS administrator can exploit this by providing numerous crafted buffer page select indexes, leading to a denial of service due to excessive memory consumption. Rated Medium (CVSS 6.0), this vulnerability requires high privileges (PR:H) and has a high impact on availability (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
42.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
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