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CVE-2016-2198

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the USB EHCI emulation support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference flaw.

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
5.5
v3.1 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.4%
percentile 38%
Public exploits
0
none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.44% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.15.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD2.02.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

  • openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2016/01/30/2 · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
  • lists.debian.org /debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
  • bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=1301643 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2016/01/29/6 · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
  • security.gentoo.org /glsa/201604-01 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO, x_transferred
  • lists.gnu.org /archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05899.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred

Sources

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