NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in QEMU USB Net Device Emulator

CVE-2016-2392 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The is_rndis function in the USB Net device emulator (hw/usb/dev-network.c) in QEMU before 2.5.1 does not properly validate USB configuration descriptor objects, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving a remote NDIS control message packet.

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