Security Advisory
CVE-2016-2197
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
December 29, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory