CVE-2016-9923

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium

CVSS5.5

Exploit probability—

ProductQemu

PublishedDec 23, 2016

First seenDec 23, 2016

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
qemu qemu	v ≤ 2.7.1	—

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