Use After Free Affecting libcacard-tools-rhev package, versions <10:2.3.0-31.el7_2.7


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBCACARDTOOLSRHEV-5086500
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed8 Jan 2016

Introduced: 8 Jan 2016

CVE-2016-1568  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 libcacard-tools-rhev to version 10:2.3.0-31.el7_2.7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2016:0088.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcacard-tools-rhev package and not the libcacard-tools-rhev 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 Base Scores

version 3.1