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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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1497-1 qemu security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-3282 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2891-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

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Updated: 2024-08-05T23:24:48.274Z

Reserved: 2016-01-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-2198

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-12-29T22:59:00.480

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-2198

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-01-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-2198 - Bugzilla

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