The vulnerability of the QEMU hardware emulation software, which allows a hacker to trigger a service failure

The vulnerability of the sdhcisdmatransfermultiblocks function in the hw/sd/sdhci.c file of the QEMU hardware/software emulator is related to improper management of system resources. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker, operating locally, to trigger a service failure infinite loop...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5987

The sdhcisdmatransfermultiblocks function in hw/sd/sdhci.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service infinite loop and QEMU process crash via vectors involving the transfer mode register during multi block transfer...