Vigil@nce - QEMU: infinite loop via the USB OHCI emulation
August 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker, inside a guest system, can generate an infinite loop
via the USB emulation, OHCI interface in QEMU, in order to trigger
a denial of service on the host system.
Impacted products: Debian, Fedora, openSUSE Leap, QEMU, SUSE Linux
Enterprise Desktop, SLES, WindRiver Linux.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 01/06/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker, inside a guest system, can generate an infinite loop
via the USB emulation, OHCI interface in QEMU, in order to trigger
a denial of service on the host system.
Technical details are unknown.
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https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/QEMU-infinite-loop-via-the-USB-OHCI-emulation-22880