NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting qemu-img package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-QEMUIMG-1345851
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed29 Jan 2016

Introduced: 29 Jan 2016

CVE-2016-2198  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 qemu-img.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-img package and not the qemu-img package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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.

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