CVE-2016-4037
Moderate
CVE-2016-4037
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.
Exploit probability
0.4%
Published
May 23, 2016
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
102 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2016-4037
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- 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