UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2198

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2198

    Published: 29 Jan 2016Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-2198
    Aliases:
    USN-2891-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2198, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/30/2, https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05899.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2891-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2198

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: qemu

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22

    Affected versions

    1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu5
    1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu6

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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