Roundup: [oss-security] CVE-2017-6505 Qemu: usb: an infinite loop issue in ohci_service_ed_list

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Known CVEs: CVE-2017-6505

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Mon, 6 Mar 2017 23:51:41 +0530 (IST) P J P , alpine.LFD.2.20.1703062349510.6862@wniryva

   Hello,

Quick Emulator built with the USB OHCI Emulation support is vulnerable to an 
infinite loop issue. It could occur while processing an endpoint list 
descriptor in ohci_service_ed_list().

A guest user/process could use this flaw to crash Qemu process resulting in 
DoS.

Upstream patch:
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   -> http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=95ed56939eb2eaa4e2f349fe6dcd13ca4edfd8fb

Reference:
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   -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1429432

This issue was reported by Li Qiang of 360.cn Inc.

'CVE-2017-6505' allocated via -> http://cveform.mitre.org/

Thank you.
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Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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[fpletz]

This is fixed in our version of qemu.