CVE-2016-7466

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-12-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-772

Description

Memory leak in the usb_xhci_exit function in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when the xhci uses msix, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and possibly QEMU process crash) by repeatedly unplugging a USB device.

Affected products

openSUSE Leap: 42.2
QEMU: through 2.7.1
OpenStack: 6.0, 7.0, 8, 9, 10, 11
RedHat Virtualization: 4.0

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b53dd4495ced2432a0b652ea895e651d07336f7e
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/19/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/20/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93029
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg02773.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b53dd4495ced2432a0b652ea895e651d07336f7e
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/19/8

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