Security Advisory

CVE-2016-7466

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-10 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:57:47
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Memory leak in the usb_xhci_exit function in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when the xhci uses msix, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and possibly QEMU process crash) by repeatedly unplugging a USB device.