CVE-2017-5987

Description

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-01

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg02776.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421995

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96263

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/14/8

http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6e86d90352adf6cb08295255220295cf23c4286e

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3