Security Advisory
CVE-2016-2198
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
December 29, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory