CVE-2016-1568

MEDIUM

Description

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.

References

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

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0084.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0086.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0087.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0088.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/09/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/09/2

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80191

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034859

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2016-04-12

Updated: 2020-10-15

Type: CWE-416

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 6.9

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

Impact Score: 10

Exploitability Score: 3.4

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Impact Score: 6

Exploitability Score: 2

Severity: HIGH