CVE-2016-9923

Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the 'chardev' backend support is vulnerable to a use after free issue

published December 23, 2016

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
69.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01261 · 69.2th percentile
Published
2016-12-23T22:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 DEC 22:00Z
    Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the 'chardev' backend support is vulnerable to a use after free issue
    cvelistv5