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CVE-2016-2198
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-12-29T22:59:00.480 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:43:39.227

Summary

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.

Affected products

qemu — qemu

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References

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