CVE-2014-5263

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

vmstate_xhci_event in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c in QEMU 1.6.0 does not terminate the list with the VMSTATE_END_OF_LIST macro, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access, infinite loop, and memory corruption) and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

QEMU: 1.6.0

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3afca1d6d413592c2b78cf28f52fa24a586d8f56
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/04/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/16/1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2409-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1126543
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3afca1d6d413592c2b78cf28f52fa24a586d8f56
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/04/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/16/1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2409-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1126543

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