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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 20:15:01 -0500 (EST)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: ppandit@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, zuozhi.fzz@...baba-inc.com
Subject: Re: CVE request Qemu: usb: ehci null pointer dereference in ehci_caps_write

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> 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.
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg05899.html
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301643

>> usb: ehci: add capability mmio write function

>> its mmio '.write' function was missing, which lead to a null
>> pointer dereference issue

Use CVE-2016-2198.

This is not yet available at
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=history;f=hw/usb/hcd-ehci.c but
that may be an expected place for a later update.

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CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority
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202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA
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