CVE-2016-9923 | BDVDB-2026-79932 Detail

Description#

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/09/2
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94827

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12016-12-23Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.