Use After Free Affecting qemu package, versions <2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.07% (33rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1404-QEMU-428194
- published 12 Apr 2016
- disclosed 12 Apr 2016
Introduced: 12 Apr 2016
CVE-2016-1568 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 qemu to version 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu package and not the qemu package as distributed by Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-1568
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1568
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=4ab0359a8ae182a7ac5c99609667273167703fab
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/09/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/09/2
- 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.securityfocus.com/bid/80191
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034859
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ab0359a8ae182a7ac5c99609667273167703fab
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0084
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0086
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0087
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0088
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1568
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288532
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