Resource management error in QEMU - CVE-2016-8576
Published: November 4, 2016 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32130
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-8576
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local privileged user to a crash the entire system.
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. <a href="http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/835.html">CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')</a>
Affected software
QEMU
qemu (Alpine package)
xen
Fedora
qemu (Alpine package)
xen
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2016-8576
Install update from vendor's website.
qemu (Alpine package) - update to 2.8.1-r1
xen - addressed in versions 4.5.5-3.fc23, 4.6.3-7.fc24, 4.7.0-7.fc25
xen - addressed in versions 4.5.5-3.fc23, 4.6.3-7.fc24, 4.7.0-7.fc25
External References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=05f43d44e4bc26611ce25fd7d726e483f73363ce
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/12
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/10/6
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93469
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg01265.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11