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Use After Free Affecting qemu-guest-agent package, versions *

high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.07% (32nd percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high
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Red Hat
4.6 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-QEMUGUESTAGENT-1957354
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 8 Jan 2016
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Introduced: 8 Jan 2016

CVE-2016-1568 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-416 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 qemu-guest-agent.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-guest-agent package and not the qemu-guest-agent package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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