CVE-2016-2197
5.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.11%
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.
How to fix CVE-2016-2197
To remediate CVE-2016-2197, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/qemu—upgrade to 1:2.6+dfsg-1 or later
Is CVE-2016-2197 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1:2.6+dfsg-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |