cve-2016-2198
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-12-29 22:00
Modified
2024-08-05 23:24
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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
| ▼ | URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| secalert@redhat.com | http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/29/6 | Mailing List, Third Party Advisory | |
| secalert@redhat.com | http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/30/2 | Mailing List, Third Party Advisory | |
| secalert@redhat.com | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301643 | Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory | |
| secalert@redhat.com | https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html | Third Party Advisory | |
| secalert@redhat.com | https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05899.html | Patch, Vendor Advisory | |
| secalert@redhat.com | https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01 | Third Party Advisory |
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