CVE-2016-1568

high

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ab0359a8ae182a7ac5c99609667273167703fab

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-04-12

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00423