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CVE-2020-25625 QEMU: usb: hcd-ohci: infinite loop issue while processing transfer descriptors


From: P J P <ppandit () redhat com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:43:46 +0530 (IST)

  Hello,

An infinite loop issue was found in the USB OHCI controller emulator of QEMU. It could occur while servicing OHCI isochronous transfer descriptors (TD) in ohci_service_iso_td routine, as it retires a TD if it has passed its time frame. While doing so it does not check if the TD was already processed ones and holds an error code in TD_CC. It may happen if the TD list has a loop.

A guest user/process may use this flaw to consume cpu cycles on the host resulting in a DoS scenario.

Upstream patch:
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  -> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-09/msg05905.html

'CVE-2020-25625' assigned via https://cveform.mitre.org/

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