CVE-2016-2198
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2016-2198 |
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| State | PUBLIC |
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| Assigner | [email protected] |
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| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
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| Published | 2016-12-29 22:59:00 UTC |
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| Updated | 2020-11-10 17:54:00 UTC |
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| 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. |
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NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
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| oss-security - CVE request Qemu: usb: ehci null pointer dereference in
ehci_caps_write |
MLIST |
www.openwall.com |
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory |
| [SECURITY] [DLA 1497-1] qemu security update |
MLIST |
lists.debian.org |
Third Party Advisory |
| oss-security - Re: CVE request Qemu: usb: ehci null pointer dereference in ehci_caps_write |
MLIST |
www.openwall.com |
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory |
| Bug 1301643 – CVE-2016-2198 Qemu: usb: ehci null pointer dereference in ehci_caps_write |
CONFIRM |
bugzilla.redhat.com |
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory |
| [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] usb: ehci: add capability mmio write function |
MLIST |
lists.gnu.org |
Patch, Vendor Advisory |
| QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201604-01) — Gentoo Security |
GENTOO |
security.gentoo.org |
Third Party Advisory |
| CVE Program record |
CVE.ORG |
www.cve.org |
canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail |
NVD |
nvd.nist.gov |
canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
Legacy QID Mappings
- 900063 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for qemu-kvm 4.2.0
