CVE-2016-1568 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2016-1568?

CVE-2016-1568 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 8 Apr 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-1568?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Qemu Qemu, Redhat Openstack, Redhat Virtualization.

How do I fix CVE-2016-1568?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2016-1568 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-1568 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1568, GHSA-gx29-hhc2-825w, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1568.