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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

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
QemuQemu4.0.0 (including)4.0.0 (including)
Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.1.0RedHatvirt:8.1-8010020190927171011.cdc1202b*
Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.1.0RedHatvirt-devel:8.1-8010020190927171011.cdc1202b*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHatqemu-kvm-2:0.12.1.2-2.506.el6_10.5*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatqemu-kvm-10:1.5.3-167.el7_7.1*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8RedHatvirt-devel:rhel-8010020190916153839.cdc1202b*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8RedHatvirt:rhel-8010020190916153839.cdc1202b*
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton)RedHatqemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.12.0-33.el7_7.4*
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens)RedHatqemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.12.0-33.el7_7.4*
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14.0 (Rocky)RedHatqemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.12.0-33.el7_7.4*
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatqemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.12.0-33.el7_7.4*
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatqemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.12.0-44.el7*
Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.3RedHatqemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.12.0-33.el7_7.4*
Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.3RedHatqemu-kvm-rhev-10:2.12.0-44.el7*
QemuUbuntubionic*
QemuUbuntucosmic*
QemuUbuntudevel*
QemuUbuntudisco*
QemuUbuntueoan*
QemuUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
QemuUbuntuesm-infra/bionic*
QemuUbuntuesm-infra/focal*
QemuUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
QemuUbuntufocal*
QemuUbuntugroovy*
QemuUbuntuhirsute*
QemuUbuntutrusty/esm*
QemuUbuntuupstream*
QemuUbuntuxenial*
Qemu-kvmUbuntuprecise/esm*

Potential Mitigations

References

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