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.

• CWE-416

• http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ab0359a8ae182a7ac5c99609667273167703fab
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0084.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0086.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0087.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0088.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469Third Party Advisory
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470Third Party Advisory
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/09/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/09/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80191Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034859Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01Third Party Advisory
• http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ab0359a8ae182a7ac5c99609667273167703fab
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0084.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0086.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0087.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0088.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3469Third Party Advisory
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3470Third Party Advisory
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/09/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/09/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80191Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034859Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01Third Party Advisory

Published

Apr 12, 2016

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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