vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-5973: qemu, qemu-kvm -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 27, 2017
Added
Mar 31, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-qemudebian-upgrade-qemu-kvm
Title
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