VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-1568

high
Published 2016-04-12 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.9
VIR risk
8.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
82%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1568

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1568.html

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
redhat rhel7.0not-affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:2.5+dfsg-2
debian debianbullseyefixed1:2.5+dfsg-2
debian debianforkyfixed1:2.5+dfsg-2
debian debiansidfixed1:2.5+dfsg-2
debian debiantrixiefixed1:2.5+dfsg-2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.5.1.1"}
redhat redhatopenstack6.0
redhat redhatopenstack7.0
redhat redhatopenstack5.0
redhat redhatvirtualization3.0

References

CWEs

CWE-416

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.