VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2016-2198
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the USB EHCI emulation support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference flaw.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.42%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.42%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.42% probability · 36th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-476
- Affected
- qemu/qemu · debian/debian linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/29/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/30/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301643Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05899.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/29/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/30/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301643Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05899.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.