Bug 1301643 (CVE-2016-2198) - CVE-2016-2198 Qemu: usb: ehci null pointer dereference in ehci_caps_write
Summary: CVE-2016-2198 Qemu: usb: ehci null pointer dereference in ehci_caps_write
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-2198
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1303134 1303135
Blocks: 1301644
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-01-25 15:24 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2023-05-12 18:41 UTC (History)
30 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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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).
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:47:46 UTC
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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.
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