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CVE-2016-2197

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 0.42%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2016-12-29 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2016-2197
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.42%

Original NVD Description

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.