CVE-2016-9923

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-416

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/09/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94827Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/09/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94827Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Dec 23, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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