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Use After Free

CVE-2024-6519

High
8.2/10

Summary

A Use-After-Free vulnerability was found in the QEMU LSI53C895A SCSI Host Bus Adapter emulation. This issue can lead to a crash or VM escape.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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