Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9923

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-23 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 03:07:31
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.