VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-5973

medium
Published 2017-03-27 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

The xhci_kick_epctx function in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to control transfer descriptor sequence.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debian8.0affected
redhat rhel7.0not-affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:2.8+dfsg-3
debian debianbullseyefixed1:2.8+dfsg-3
debian debianforkyfixed1:2.8+dfsg-3
debian debiansidfixed1:2.8+dfsg-3
debian debiantrixiefixed1:2.8+dfsg-3

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.8.1.1"}
redhat redhatopenstack6.0
redhat redhatopenstack7.0
redhat redhatopenstack8
redhat redhatopenstack9
redhat redhatopenstack10
redhat redhatopenstack11
redhat redhatvirtualization4.0

References

CWEs

CWE-835

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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