CVE-2010-0297

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-02-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

QEMU: through 0.11.0; 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.1.3, 0.1.4, 0.1.5 (+34)

References

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=babd03fde68093482528010a5435c14ce9128e3f
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126510479211473&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126527304127254&w=2
http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog
http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm%40vger.kernel.org/msg18447.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm%40vger.kernel.org/msg19581.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm%40vger.kernel.org/msg19596.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38158
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557025
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56194
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11786
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0088.html

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