CVE-2017-9330

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.6 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-06-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-835

Description

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) before 2.9.0, when built with the USB OHCI Emulation support, allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by leveraging an incorrect return value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-6505.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
QEMU: through 2.8.1.1

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=26f670a244982335cc08943fb1ec099a2c81e42d
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/01/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98779
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1457697
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-03
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=26f670a244982335cc08943fb1ec099a2c81e42d
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3920
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/01/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98779
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1457697

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