QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the USB EHCI emulation support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference flaw. It could occur when an application attempts to write to EHCI capabilities registers. A privileged user inside quest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS.
References
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History
21 Nov 2024, 02:48
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| References | () http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/29/6 - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory | |
| References | () http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/30/2 - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory | |
| References | () https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301643 - Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory | |
| References | () https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html - Third Party Advisory | |
| References | () https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05899.html - Patch, Vendor Advisory | |
| References | () https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01 - Third Party Advisory |
Information
Published : 2016-12-29 22:59
Updated : 2024-11-21 02:48
NVD link : CVE-2016-2198
Mitre link : CVE-2016-2198
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2016-2198
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Products Affected
debian
- debian_linux
qemu
- qemu
CWE
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference