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CVE-2016-2198

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 0.42%

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

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CVE
CVE-2016-2198
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.42%

Original Filing — NVD Description

QEMU (aka Quick 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.