QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with USB xHCI controller emulator support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (infinite recursive call) via vectors involving control transfer descriptors sequencing.
CVE-2017-9375
Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2022-05-13. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 5.5
- EG Score
- 5.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 34.6%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 16, 2017
Last Modified
May 13, 2026
References (16)
- cve@mitrehttp://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=96d87bdda3919bb16f754b3d3fd1227e1f38f13c
- cve@mitrehttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3991
- cve@mitrehttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/05/2
- cve@mitrehttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98915
- cve@mitrehttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392
- cve@mitrehttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
- cve@mitrehttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458744
- cve@mitrehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00021.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=96d87bdda3919bb16f754b3d3fd1227e1f38f13c
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3991
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/05/2
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98915
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458744
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2017-9375(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(3)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | qemu-system-x86 (1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2.4) @ zesty | 2026-05-22 | ubuntu |
| redhat | qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.9.0-14.el7 | 2017-08-01 | redhat |
| redhat | qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.9.0-10.el7 | 2017-08-01 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
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(2)
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