vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-6505: qemu, qemu-kvm -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 15, 2017
Added
Feb 19, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solutions

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