CVE-2016-2198 (GCVE-0-2016-2198)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-12-29 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:24
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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.
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