CVE-2016-2198

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.

Category

5.5
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.10%
Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory gnu.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/30/2 third party advisory mailing list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html third party advisory mailing list
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301643 issue tracking third party advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/29/6 third party advisory mailing list
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05899.html mailing list patch vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2016-2198?
CVE-2016-2198 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2016-2198?
To fix CVE-2016-2198, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2016-2198 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2016-2198 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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