CVSS 3.1
6.0 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2016-7466
Memory leak in the usb_xhci_exit function in hw/usb/hcd-xhci.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when the xhci uses msix, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and possibly QEMU process crash) by repeatedly unplugging a USB device.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 36% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-772
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- opensuse:leap
- qemu:qemu
- redhat:openstack
- redhat:virtualization