VDB
GHSA-858x-x5xv-4rpm
GHSA-858x-x5xv-4rpm
PUBLISHED
CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 14, 2022
The is_rndis function in the USB Net device emulator (hw/usb/dev-network.c) in QEMU before 2.5.1 does not properly validate USB configuration descriptor objects, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving a remote NDIS control message packet.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Timeline
- May 14, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory
- Apr 29, 2026 Distribution Patch
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References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=80eecda8e5d09c442c24307f340840a5b70ea3b9 url
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=80eecda8e5d09c442c24307f340840a5b70ea3b9 url
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2016-03/msg00064.html url
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/16/7 url
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83274 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2392 advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302299 url
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-02/msg02553.html url
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html url
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01 url
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2974-1 url