CVE-2016-2198
Published: 29 January 2016
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.
Priority
Status
Package | Release | Status |
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qemu
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
precise |
Does not exist
|
trusty |
Released
(2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22)
|
|
upstream |
Needed
|
|
vivid |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
wily |
Released
(1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.2)
|
|
Patches:
other: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05899.html |
||
qemu-kvm
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
precise |
Not vulnerable
|
trusty |
Does not exist
|
|
upstream |
Not vulnerable
|
|
vivid |
Does not exist
|
|
wily |
Does not exist
|
Severity score breakdown
Parameter | Value |
---|---|
Base score | 5.5 |
Attack vector | Local |
Attack complexity | Low |
Privileges required | Low |
User interaction | None |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | None |
Integrity impact | None |
Availability impact | High |
Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |