Use After Free Affecting libcacard-tools package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.07% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-LIBCACARDTOOLS-1345718
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 8 Jan 2016

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 libcacard-tools.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcacard-tools package and not the libcacard-tools package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

8.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Changed
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

4.6 medium