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FKIE_CVE-2017-5987

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-03-20 16:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:21
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e86d90352adf6cb08295255220295cf23c4286e
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/8Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96263Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421995Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg02776.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-01Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e86d90352adf6cb08295255220295cf23c4286e
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/8Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96263Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421995Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg02776.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-01Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
qemu qemu *
qemu qemu 2.9.0
qemu qemu 2.9.0
qemu qemu 2.9.0
qemu qemu 2.9.0
qemu qemu 2.9.0
debian debian_linux 8.0
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