cve-2016-7466
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-12-10 00:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:57
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b53dd4495ced2432a0b652ea895e651d07336f7e
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/19/8Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/20/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93029Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg02773.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11Third Party Advisory
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