Infinite loop in QEMU - CVE-2017-9330

 

Infinite loop in QEMU - CVE-2017-9330

Published: June 6, 2017 / Updated: June 8, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU6947
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0:
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9330
CWE-ID: CWE-835
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: QEMU
Affected software:
QEMU

Detailed vulnerability description

Quick Emulator built with the USB OHCI Emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while processing an endpoint list descriptor in ohci_service_ed_list(). A guest user/process could use this flaw to crash Qemu process resulting in DoS.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-9330

Update to version 2.9.0-r2.

Sources