CVE-2016-2197
Description
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with an IDE AHCI emulation support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference flaw. It occurs while unmapping the Frame Information Structure (FIS) and Command List Block (CLB) entries. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1:2.6+dfsg-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | qemu | {"endIncluding":"2.5.1.1"} | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2197.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/29/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/30/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82235
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302057
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05742.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2197
CWEs
CWE-476
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.