CVE-2016-9923 - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Attack Vector Adjacent Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Qemu	Qemu

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/09/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94827
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9923
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9923

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2016-12-23T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T03:07:31.921Z

Reserved: 2016-12-08T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-9923

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2016-12-23T22:59:00.580

Modified: 2020-12-14T20:16:27.500

Link: CVE-2016-9923

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-11-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-9923 - Bugzilla

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