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CVE-2019-12155

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: May 24, 2019 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.8 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12155
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

interface_release_resource in hw/display/qxl.c in QEMU 3.1.x through 4.0.0 has a NULL pointer dereference.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Qemu Qemu 4.0.0 (including) 4.0.0 (including)
Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.1.0 RedHat virt:8.1-8010020190927171011.cdc1202b *
Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.1.0 RedHat virt-devel:8.1-8010020190927171011.cdc1202b *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat qemu-kvm-2:0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat qemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-167.el7_7.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat virt-devel:rhel-8010020190916153839.cdc1202b *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat virt:rhel-8010020190916153839.cdc1202b *
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton) RedHat qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.12.0-33.el7_7.4 *
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens) RedHat qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.12.0-33.el7_7.4 *
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14.0 (Rocky) RedHat qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.12.0-33.el7_7.4 *
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.12.0-33.el7_7.4 *
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.12.0-44.el7 *
Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.3 RedHat qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.12.0-33.el7_7.4 *
Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.3 RedHat qemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.12.0-44.el7 *
Qemu Ubuntu bionic *
Qemu Ubuntu cosmic *
Qemu Ubuntu devel *
Qemu Ubuntu disco *
Qemu Ubuntu eoan *
Qemu Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Qemu Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Qemu Ubuntu esm-infra/focal *
Qemu Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Qemu Ubuntu focal *
Qemu Ubuntu groovy *
Qemu Ubuntu hirsute *
Qemu Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Qemu Ubuntu upstream *
Qemu Ubuntu xenial *
Qemu-kvm Ubuntu precise/esm *

Potential Mitigations

References

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