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SUSE: CVE-2016-4037: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
05/23/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/13/2016
Modified
06/20/2021

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kvm
  • suse-upgrade-qemu
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-block-curl
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-block-rbd
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-guest-agent
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-ipxe
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-kvm
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-lang
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-ppc
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-s390
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-seabios
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-sgabios
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-tools
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-vgabios
  • suse-upgrade-qemu-x86
  • suse-upgrade-xen
  • suse-upgrade-xen-devel
  • suse-upgrade-xen-doc-html
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-xen-kmp-pae
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs
  • suse-upgrade-xen-libs-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools
  • suse-upgrade-xen-tools-domu

References

  • SUSE-SU-2016:1560-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1698-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1703-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1785-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:2093-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:2100-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:2533-1
  • USN-2974-1
  • CVE-2016-4037
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