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CVE-2016-2198
Published: Dec 29, 2016
Modified: Aug 5, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
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n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
[oss-security] 20160130 Re: CVE request Qemu: usb: ehci null pointer dereference in ehci_caps_write
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[debian-lts-announce] 20180906 [SECURITY] [DLA 1497-1] qemu security update
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301643
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[oss-security] 20160129 CVE request Qemu: usb: ehci null pointer dereference in ehci_caps_write
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GLSA-201604-01
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[qemu-devel] 20160129 [PATCH] usb: ehci: add capability mmio write function
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