CVE-2016-8576

medium

Description

The xhci_ring_fetch function in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) by leveraging failure to limit the number of link Transfer Request Blocks (TRB) to process.

References

Advisories
More

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg01265.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93469

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/6

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/12

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=05f43d44e4bc26611ce25fd7d726e483f73363ce

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-11-04

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00098