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GHSA-4fg5-fcph-rgxc
GHSA-4fg5-fcph-rgxc
PUBLISHED
CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022
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.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Timeline
- May 13, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 29, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05899.html url
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/29/6 url
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00007.html url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2198 advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301643 url
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01 url
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/30/2 url