CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5973
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
Description
The xhci_kick_epctx function in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to control transfer descriptor sequence.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.8.1.1)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• 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-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f89b60f6e5fee3923bedf80e82b4e5efc1bb156b git.qemu-project.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/13/11 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96220 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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421626 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg01101.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-01 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f89b60f6e5fee3923bedf80e82b4e5efc1bb156b git.qemu-project.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/13/11 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96220 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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421626 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg01101.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-01 Third Party Advisory