CVE-2014-5263 Information

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.

Reference

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=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