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CVE-2010-0297
Buffer overflow in the usb_host_handle_control function in the USB passthrough handling implementation in usb-linux.c in QEMU before…
High7.2EPSS 0.51%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Buffer overflow in the usb_host_handle_control function in the USB passthrough handling implementation in usb-linux.c in QEMU before 0.11.1 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash or hang) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS via a crafted USB packet.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.51% · top 56% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (12)
- 38158 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [kvm] 20090721 Re: KVM crashes when using certain USB device (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100204 Re: KVM possible security issues fixed (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [kvm] 20090702 KVM crashes when using certain USB device (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0088 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- kernel-usb-bo(56194) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- [kvm] 20090721 Re: KVM crashes when using certain USB device (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557025 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11786 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100202 KVM possible security issues fixed (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=babd03fde68093482528010a5435c14ce9128e3f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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