CVE-2010-0297

high

Description

Buffer overflow in the usb_host_handle_control function in the USB passthrough handling implementation in usb-linux.c in QEMU before 0.11.1 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash or hang) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS via a crafted USB packet.

References

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0088.html

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11786

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56194

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557025

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38158

http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm%40vger.kernel.org/msg19596.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm%40vger.kernel.org/msg19581.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm%40vger.kernel.org/msg18447.html

http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126527304127254&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126510479211473&w=2

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=babd03fde68093482528010a5435c14ce9128e3f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-02-12

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00086