CVE-2010-0297 Information

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.

Reference

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@vger.kernel.org/msg18447.html http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg19581.html http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.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/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11786 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0088.html