CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-5973

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Mar 27, 2017 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
2.3 LOW
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW

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.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Qemu Qemu * 2.8.1.1 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 RedHat qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.9.0-10.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 RedHat qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.9.0-10.el7 *
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton) RedHat qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.9.0-10.el7 *
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 (Ocata) RedHat qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.9.0-10.el7 *
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) RedHat qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.9.0-10.el7 *
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka) RedHat qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.9.0-10.el7 *
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.9.0-14.el7 *
Qemu Ubuntu trusty *
Qemu Ubuntu xenial *
Qemu Ubuntu yakkety *
Qemu-kvm Ubuntu precise *
Qemu-kvm Ubuntu precise/esm *

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