# CVE-2016-2197: QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with an IDE AHCI emulation support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference flaw.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2016-12-29 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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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## References

- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82235
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/29/2
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/30/1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302057
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05742.html

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