CVE-2016-1568

NameCVE-2016-1568
DescriptionUse-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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-3469-1, DSA-3470-1, DSA-3471-1
Debian Bugs810527

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
qemu (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u23fixed
stretch (security)1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u17fixed
stretch (lts), stretch1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u19fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u12fixed
bullseye1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3fixed
bullseye (security)1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2fixed
bookworm1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7fixed
sid, trixie1:9.2.0+ds-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
qemusourcesqueeze(not affected)
qemusourcewheezy1.1.2+dfsg-6a+deb7u12DSA-3469-1
qemusourcejessie1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u5aDSA-3471-1
qemusource(unstable)1:2.5+dfsg-2810527
qemu-kvmsourcesqueeze(not affected)
qemu-kvmsourcewheezy1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u12DSA-3470-1
qemu-kvmsource(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

[squeeze] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[squeeze] - qemu-kvm <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
Fixed by: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg01184.html
ahci emulation added in: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=f6ad2e32f8d833c7f1c75dc084a84a8f02704d64 (v0.14.0-rc0)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288532
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/09/1

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