CVE-2016-2197

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with an IDE AHCI emulation support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference flaw. It occurs while unmapping the Frame Information Structure (FIS) and Command List Block (CLB) entries. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS.

CVSS v3 5.5 MEDIUM
CVSS v2.0 2.1 LOW

5.5^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

2.1^/10

CVSS v2.0 : LOW

Vector : AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 2.9

Access Vector LOCAL

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/29/2	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/30/1	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82235	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302057	Issue Tracking
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05742.html	Patch Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2016-12-29 22:59

Updated : 2024-02-28 15:44

NVD link : CVE-2016-2197

Mitre link : CVE-2016-2197

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2016-2197

JSON object : View

Products Affected

qemu

qemu

CWE

CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference

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