Security Advisory

CVE-2016-1922

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-29 22:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 23:10:40

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

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.

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