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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2197

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with an IDE AHCI emulation support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference flaw. It occurs while unmapping the Fra...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with an IDE AHCI emulation support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference flaw. It occurs while unmapping the Frame Information Structure (FIS) and Command List Block (CLB) entries. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 qemu

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2.6+dfsg-1"}]}]

Debian:13 qemu

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2.6+dfsg-1"}]}]

Debian:14 qemu

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2.6+dfsg-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org