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.
Published: 2016-12-23
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-10710 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T03:07:31.921Z

Reserved: 2016-12-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-9923

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-12-23T22:59:00.580

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-9923

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-11-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-9923 - Bugzilla

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