Source: qemu Version: 1:2.1+dfsg-1 Severity: important Tags: security upstream patch
CVE-2016-2198 has been assigned to the following flaw http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/29/6 : --- Qemu 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. Upstream patch: --------------- -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05899.html Reference: ---------- -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301643 This issue was discovered by Mr Zuozhi Fzz of Alibaba Inc.
