CVE-2016-1922

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-476

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/16/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/16/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81058Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283934Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg02812.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/16/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/16/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81058Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283934Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg02812.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-01Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Dec 29, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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