CVE-2017-5973: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The xhci_kick_epctx function in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to control transfer descriptor sequence.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.8.1.1
• Red Hat Openstack: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 8 only; version 9 only; version 10 only; version 11 only
• Red Hat Virtualization: version 4.0 only

Published 2017-03-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.