Bug 1301643 (CVE-2016-2198)

Summary:	CVE-2016-2198 Qemu: usb: ehci null pointer dereference in ehci_caps_write
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	abaron, alonbl, apevec, areis, ayoung, bmcclain, chrisw, dallan, dblechte, gkotton, jen, jschluet, knoel, lhh, lpeer, markmc, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, mkenneth, mrezanin, mst, pbonzini, ppandit, rbryant, sclewis, security-response-team, slong, srevivo, tdecacqu, ykaul
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the QEMU emulator built with USB EHCI emulation support. The flaw could occur when an application attempts to write to EHCI-capability registers. A privileged user inside a quest could exploit this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance (denial of service).	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 02:47:46 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1303134, 1303135
Bug Blocks:	1301644

Description Adam Mariš 2016-01-25 15:24:19 UTC

Qemu 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.

Upstream patch:
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  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05899.html

Reference:
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  -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/30/2

Comment 2 Prasad Pandit 2016-01-29 16:06:37 UTC

Statement:

This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently
planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer
to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle:
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

Comment 3 Prasad Pandit 2016-01-29 16:09:00 UTC

Acknowledgement:

Red Hat would like to thank Zuozhi Fzz of Alibaba Inc. for reporting this issue.

Comment 4 Prasad Pandit 2016-01-29 16:15:08 UTC

Created xen tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1303135]

Comment 5 Prasad Pandit 2016-01-29 16:15:24 UTC

Created qemu tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1303134]

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-03-19 21:23:00 UTC

xen-4.5.2-9.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2016-03-20 02:26:54 UTC

xen-4.5.2-9.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2016-05-15 05:27:28 UTC

qemu-2.4.1-9.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2016-05-20 23:49:41 UTC

qemu-2.3.1-14.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.