Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 29, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-2197
CVE-2016-2197
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.
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Affected products
5- osv-coords3 versionspkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1
< 2.3.1-14.1+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.1-14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.1-14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.1-14.1
Patches
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References
6- lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05742.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/29/2nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/30/1nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/82235nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01nvdThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue Tracking
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