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LIN8-5556 : Security Advisory - qemu - CVE-2016-1922

Created: Jan 12, 2017    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Jan 17, 2017
Found In Version: 8.0.0.13
Fix Version: 8.0.0.14
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Userspace

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.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-1922

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