CVE-2020-14394

Summary

CVECVE-2020-14394
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-08-17 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:17:00 UTC
DescriptionAn infinite loop flaw was found in the USB xHCI controller emulation of QEMU while computing the length of the Transfer Request Block (TRB) Ring. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to hang the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-835

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Fedoraproject Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 37 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 6.1.50 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack Platform 10.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openstack Platform 13.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 3362-1] qemu security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Infinite loop in xhci_ring_chain_length() in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c (CVE-2020-14394) (#646) · Issues · QEMU / QEMU · GitLab MISC gitlab.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: qemu-7.0.0-12.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: qemu-7.0.0-12.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
1908004 – (CVE-2020-14394) CVE-2020-14394 QEMU: infinite loop in xhci_ring_chain_length() in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181630 Debian Security Update for qemu (DLA 3362-1)
  • 283510 Fedora Security Update for qemu (FEDORA-2022-22b1f8dae2)
  • 753802 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2023:0761-1)
  • 753824 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2023:0840-1)
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