NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.6+dfsg-1
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- published 29 Dec 2016
- disclosed 29 Dec 2016
Introduced: 29 Dec 2016
CVE-2016-2198 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable
qemu
to version 1:2.6+dfsg-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu
package and not the qemu
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:unstable
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2198
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05899.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
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-2198