Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.8+dfsg-3
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (25th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-QEMU-516491
- published 20 Mar 2017
- disclosed 20 Mar 2017
Introduced: 20 Mar 2017
CVE-2017-5987 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
qemu
to version 1:2.8+dfsg-3 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu
package and not the qemu
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
The sdhci_sdma_transfer_multi_blocks function in hw/sd/sdhci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving the transfer mode register during multi block transfer.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5987
- http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=6e86d90352adf6cb08295255220295cf23c4286e
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-01
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg02776.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/8
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421995
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96263
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-5987
- http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e86d90352adf6cb08295255220295cf23c4286e