Re: Qemu: ide: ahci use-after-free vulnerability in aio port commands

[cve-assign () mitre org]

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> Qemu emulator built with the IDE AHCI Emulation support is vulnerable to a use
> after free(kind of) issue. It could occur after processing AHCI Native Command
> Queuing(NCQ) AIO commands.
>
> A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process
> instance or might potentially execute arbitrary code with privileges of the
> Qemu process on the host.
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg01184.html
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288532

> > when the NCQ
> > command is invalid, the 'aiocb' object is not assigned, and NCQ
> > transfer object is left as 'used'. This leads to a use after
> > free kind of error in 'bdrv_aio_cancel_async' via 'ahci_reset_port'.
> > Reset NCQ transfer object to 'unused' to avoid it.

Use CVE-2016-1568.

This is not yet available at
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=history;f=hw/ide/ahci.c but
that may be an expected place for a later update.

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