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CVE-2016-1568

Published: 11 January 2016

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.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
qemu
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty
Released (2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22)
upstream Needs triage

vivid Ignored
(end of life)
wily
Released (1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.2)
Patches:
upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=4ab0359a8ae182a7ac5c99609667273167703fab
qemu-kvm
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (1.0+noroms-0ubuntu14.27)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H