CVE-2016-4037

MEDIUM

QEMU - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

The ehci_advance_state function in hw/usb/hcd-ehci.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a circular split isochronous transfer descriptor (siTD) list, a related issue to CVE-2015-8558.

References (11)

[Patch] http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1ae3f2f178087711f9591350abad133525ba93f2

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183275.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183350.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184209.html

[Mailing List] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/18/3

[Mailing List] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/18/6

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86283

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html

[Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg02691.html

[Mailing List, Vendor Advisory] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg02734.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.0

EPSS 0.0009

EPSS Percentile 26.0%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-400

Status draft

Affected Products (12)

fedoraproject/fedora

fedoraproject/fedora

fedoraproject/fedora

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

qemu/qemu < 2.5.1

qemu/qemu

qemu/qemu

qemu/qemu

debian/debian_linux

Timeline

Published May 23, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026