CVE-2010-0297

high
Published 2010-02-12 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.2

Description

Buffer overflow in the usb_host_handle_control function in the USB passthrough handling implementation in usb-linux.c in QEMU before 0.11.1 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash or hang) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS via a crafted USB packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu0.1.5
qemuqemu0.1.6
qemuqemu0.2.0
qemuqemu0.3.0
qemuqemu0.4.0
qemuqemu0.4.1
qemuqemu0.4.2
qemuqemu0.4.3
qemuqemu0.5.4
qemuqemu0.5.5
qemuqemu0.6.0
qemuqemu0.6.1
qemuqemu0.7.0
qemuqemu0.7.1
qemuqemu0.7.2
qemuqemu0.5.1
qemuqemu0.5.2
qemuqemu0.5.3
qemuqemu0.9.0
qemuqemu0.9.1
qemuqemu0.9.1-5
qemuqemu0.10.0
qemuqemu0.10.1
qemuqemu0.10.2
qemuqemu0.10.3
qemuqemu0.10.4
qemuqemu0.10.5
qemuqemu0.10.6
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"0.11.0"}
qemuqemu0.1.0
qemuqemu0.1.1
qemuqemu0.5.0
qemuqemu0.8.2
qemuqemu0.11.0-rc2
qemuqemu0.1.2
qemuqemu0.1.3
qemuqemu0.1.4
qemuqemu0.8.0
qemuqemu0.11.0-rc0
qemuqemu0.11.0-rc1
qemuqemu0.8.1

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.