CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9923
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
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.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.7.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/09/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94827 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/09/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94827 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory