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CVE-2016-1568


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.


Published

2016-04-12T02:00:05.243

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 8.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

  • Access Vector: LOCAL
  • Access Complexity: MEDIUM
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact: COMPLETE
Exploitability Score

3.4

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-416

Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application qemu qemu ≤ 2.5.1.1 Yes
Application redhat openstack 6.0 Yes
Application redhat openstack 7.0 Yes
Application redhat openstack 5.0 Yes
Application redhat virtualization 3.0 Yes
Operating System redhat enterprise_linux 7.0 No
Operating System debian debian_linux 7.0 Yes
Operating System debian debian_linux 8.0 Yes

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