CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-2391

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jun 16, 2016 | Modified: Feb 13, 2023
CVSS 3.x
5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
2.3 LOW
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

The ohci_bus_start function in the USB OHCI emulation support (hw/usb/hcd-ohci.c) in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to multiple eof_timers.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Qemu Qemu * 2.5.1.1 (including)
Qemu Ubuntu trusty *
Qemu Ubuntu upstream *
Qemu Ubuntu vivid *
Qemu Ubuntu wily *
Qemu Ubuntu xenial *
Qemu-kvm Ubuntu precise *
Qemu-kvm Ubuntu upstream *

Potential Mitigations

References