CVE-2016-1568
High
CVE-2016-1568
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.
Exploit probability
0.5%
Published
April 12, 2016
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
97 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2016-1568
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ab0359a8ae182a7ac5c99609667273167703fab
- 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.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/09/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/09/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80191
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034859
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01