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Bug 573314 (CVE-2016-2198) - <app-emulation/qemu-2.5.0-r2: usb: ehci null pointer dereference in ehci_caps_write (CVE-2016-2198)
Summary: <app-emulation/qemu-2.5.0-r2: usb: ehci null pointer dereference in ehci_caps...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2016-2198
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-sec...
Whiteboard: B3 [glsa cve]
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Depends on: 578044
Blocks:
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Reported: 2016-01-29 16:43 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2016-04-02 18:28 UTC (History)
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-01-29 16:43:59 UTC 
From ${URL} :

Qemu 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.

Upstream patch:
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   -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05899.html

Reference:
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   -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301643



@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2016-03-23 05:26:16 UTC 
this is in qemu-2.5.0-r2 and is fine for stable
Comment 3 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-03-23 06:14:40 UTC 
Added to existing GLSA.
Comment 4 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2016-04-02 17:22:04 UTC 
Clean as part of bug #567420
Comment 5 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2016-04-02 18:28:09 UTC 
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201604-01 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01
by GLSA coordinator Yury German (BlueKnight).