CVE-2016-1568

Severity

93%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

165%

Use-after-free vulnerability in hw/ide/ahci.c in QEMU, when built with IDE AHCI Emulation support, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (instance crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an invalid AHCI Native Command Queuing (NCQ) AIO command.

CWE-416: Use After Free

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2016-04-12 02:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-11-04 01:29:00

Affected Software

QEMU

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=4ab0359a8ae182a7ac5c99609667273167703fab

RHSA-2016:0084

RHSA-2016:0086

RHSA-2016:0087

RHSA-2016:0088

DSA-3469

DSA-3470

DSA-3471

[oss-security] 20160109 Qemu: ide: ahci use-after-free vulnerability in aio port commands

[oss-security] 20160109 Re: Qemu: ide: ahci use-after-free vulnerability in aio port commands

80191

1034859

GLSA-201602-01

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