CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-7466
6.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-772
Description
Memory leak in the usb_xhci_exit function in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when the xhci uses msix, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and possibly QEMU process crash) by repeatedly unplugging a USB device.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.7.1)
• opensuse leap 42.2
• redhat openstack 6.0
• redhat openstack 7.0
• redhat openstack 8
• redhat openstack 9
• redhat openstack 10
• redhat openstack 11
• redhat virtualization 4.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b53dd4495ced2432a0b652ea895e651d07336f7e git.qemu.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/19/8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/20/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93029 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg02773.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b53dd4495ced2432a0b652ea895e651d07336f7e git.qemu.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/19/8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/20/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93029 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg02773.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11 Third Party Advisory