CVE-2016-4037
medium
CVSS v3
6.0
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.0
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
60%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Fedora Affected 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | Affected | — |
| 23 | Affected | — |
| 22 | Affected | — |
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 16.04 | Affected | — |
| 15.10 | Affected | — |
| 14.04 | Affected | — |
| 12.04 | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-1 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4037.html
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1ae3f2f178087711f9591350abad133525ba93f2
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183275.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183350.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184209.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/18/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/18/6
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86283
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg02691.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg02734.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4037
CWEs
CWE-400
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.