CVE-2016-2198 · cross-distro fix matrix

CVE-2016-2198: QEMU (aka Quick 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 i

Affects 3 Linux releases across 3 (distro × package) combinations.

Fix per ecosystem

Each block below is a distro release where CVE-2016-2198 has a known fix. Run the listed command on that distro to remediate.

Debian bullseye

Source: Debian Security Tracker

qemu→ fixed in1:2.6+dfsg-1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y qemu
```

Debian bookworm

Source: Debian Security Tracker

qemu→ fixed in1:2.6+dfsg-1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y qemu
```

Debian trixie

Source: Debian Security Tracker

qemu→ fixed in1:2.6+dfsg-1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y qemu
```

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