Use After Free Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.6.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3007139
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Apr 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Apr 2016

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

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 2.6.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. 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.

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