vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-6505: Infinite Loop

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 15, 2017
Added
Oct 1, 2024
Modified
Aug 8, 2025

Description

The ohci_service_ed_list function in hw/usb/hcd-ohci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) before 2.9.0 allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors involving the number of link endpoint list descriptors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-9330.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-qemu
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