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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-1922: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-1922: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/29/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
04/05/2018

Description

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the TPR optimization for 32-bit Windows guests support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference flaw. It occurs while doing I/O port write operations via hmp interface. In that, 'current_cpu' remains null, which leads to the null pointer dereference. A user or process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU instance, resulting in DoS issue.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-qemu

References

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