CVE-2016-2198

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the USB EHCI emulation support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference flaw

published December 29, 2016

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
36.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00438 · 36.7th percentile
Published
2016-12-29T22:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 DEC 22:00Z
    QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the USB EHCI emulation support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference flaw
    cvelistv5