FKIE_CVE-2016-4037

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-05-23 19:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:46
Severity
6.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
The ehci_advance_state function in hw/usb/hcd-ehci.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a circular split isochronous transfer descriptor (siTD) list, a related issue to CVE-2015-8558.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1ae3f2f178087711f9591350abad133525ba93f2
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183275.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183350.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184209.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/18/3Mailing List
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/18/6Mailing List
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86283Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg02691.htmlMailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg02734.htmlMailing List, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1ae3f2f178087711f9591350abad133525ba93f2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183275.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183350.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184209.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/18/3Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/18/6Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86283Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg02691.htmlMailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg02734.htmlMailing List, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
fedoraproject fedora 22
fedoraproject fedora 23
fedoraproject fedora 24
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 15.10
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.04
qemu qemu *
qemu qemu 2.6.0
qemu qemu 2.6.0
qemu qemu 2.6.0
debian debian_linux 8.0
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