CVE-2016-9923
Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the 'chardev' backend support is vulnerable to a use after free issue. It could occur while hotplug and unplugging the device in the guest. A guest user/process could use this flaw to crash a Qemu process on the host resulting in DoS.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2016-12-23
- Last modified
- 2024-08-06
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Affected products
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/09/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94827
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
