CVE-2016-2198
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | 8.0 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-1 |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2198.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/29/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/30/2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301643
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05899.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2198
CWEs
CWE-476
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.