CVE-2016-1922

Publication date 19 January 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
qemu 15.10 wily
Fixed 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.2
15.04 vivid Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
qemu-kvm 15.10 wily Not in release
15.04 vivid Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected

Patch details

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Package Patch details
qemu

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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