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Ubuntu: USN-2891-1 (CVE-2016-1568): QEMU vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2891-1 (CVE-2016-1568): QEMU vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/03/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/03/2016
Modified
03/08/2021

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-aarch64
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-arm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-mips
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-misc
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-ppc
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-sparc
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qemu-system-x86

References

  • USN-2846-1
  • USN-2847-1
  • USN-2848-1
  • USN-2849-1
  • USN-2850-1
  • USN-2851-1
  • USN-2853-1
  • USN-2854-1
  • USN-2886-2
  • USN-2891-1
  • RHSA-2016:0084
  • RHSA-2016:0086
  • RHSA-2016:0087
  • RHSA-2016:0088
  • DSA-3469
  • DSA-3470
  • DSA-3471
  • 80191
  • 1034859
  • GLSA-201602-01
  • CVE-2016-1568
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