CVE-2016-2198

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium

CVSS5.5

Exploit probability—

Product

Qemu

PublishedDec 29, 2016

First seenDec 29, 2016

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
qemu qemu	v ≤ 2.5.1.1, 2.6.0	—
debian debian_linux	8.0	—

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