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.
Published: 2016-12-29
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-3281 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2891-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:24:48.453Z

Reserved: 2016-01-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-2197

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-12-29T22:59:00.450

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-2197

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-01-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-2197 - Bugzilla

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