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CVE-2016-8576
The xhci_ring_fetch function in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of…
Medium6.0EPSS 0.40%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
The xhci_ring_fetch function in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) by leveraging failure to limit the number of link Transfer Request Blocks (TRB) to process.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 25 days later
· 25 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.40% · top 65% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- [qemu-devel] 20161007 Re: [PATCH] usb: xHCI: add check to limit command TRB processing (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180906 [SECURITY] [DLA 1497-1] qemu security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- GLSA-201611-11 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20161010 CVE request Qemu: usb: xHCI: infinite loop vulnerability in xhci_ring_fetch (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2392 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:3237 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20161010 Re: CVE request Qemu: usb: xHCI: infinite loop vulnerability in xhci_ring_fetch (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2408 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=05f43d44e4bc26611ce25fd7d726e483f73363ce (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 93469 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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