CVE-2016-9923

Publication date

2016-12-23 22:00:00

Family

redhat

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.