vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-60cb2055-b1b8-11e5-9728-002590263bf5 (CVE-2015-8558): qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in USB EHCI emulation support

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 3, 2016
Added
Dec 10, 2025
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the USB EHCI emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It occurs during communication between host controller interface(EHCI) and a respective device driver. These two communicate via a isochronous transfer descriptor list(iTD) and an infinite loop unfolds if there is a closed loop in this list. A privileges user inside guest could use this flaw to consume excessive CPU cycles & resources on the host.

Solutions

freebsd-upgrade-package-qemufreebsd-upgrade-package-qemu-develfreebsd-upgrade-package-qemu-sbrunofreebsd-upgrade-package-qemu-user-static
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