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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…
High8.8EPSS 0.53%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.53% · top 55% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (13)
- RHSA-2016:0086 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160109 Re: Qemu: ide: ahci use-after-free vulnerability in aio port commands (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 80191 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ab0359a8ae182a7ac5c99609667273167703fab (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1034859 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- DSA-3469 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- DSA-3470 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:0087 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:0084 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-3471 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- GLSA-201602-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:0088 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160109 Qemu: ide: ahci use-after-free vulnerability in aio port commands (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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