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Vulnerability record · CVE-2019-12155 · published 24 May 2019

CVE-2019-12155: Qemu null pointer dereference vulnerability

Qemu · Qemu

interface_release_resource in hw/display/qxl.c in QEMU 3.1.x through 4.0.0 has a NULL pointer dereference.

7.5 CVSS 3.0 High EPSS 5.5% · top 7.4% CWE-476 · NULL pointer dereference
7.5CVSS 3.0 base score, v2 5.0
5.5%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
40References, 2 tagged exploit
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

interface_release_resource in hw/display/qxl.c in QEMU 3.1.x through 4.0.0 has a NULL pointer dereference.

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00008.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/05/22/1 ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:3723
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2607
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2892
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3179
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3345
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3742
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3787
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4344
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3be7eb2f47bf71db5f80fcf8750ea395dd5ffdd2
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00021.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BOE3PVFPMWMXV3DGP2R3XIH
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RVDHJB2QKXNDU7OFXIHIL5O
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-05/msg01321.html Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/76
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4191-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4191-2/
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4454
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00008.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/05/22/1 ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:3723
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2607
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2892
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3179
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3345
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3742
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3787
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4344
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3be7eb2f47bf71db5f80fcf8750ea395dd5ffdd2
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00021.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BOE3PVFPMWMXV3DGP2R3XIH
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RVDHJB2QKXNDU7OFXIHIL5O
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-05/msg01321.html Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/76
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4191-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4191-2/
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4454

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2019-12155), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.