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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-10710 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

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

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

Link: CVE-2016-9923

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

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

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-9923

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

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

Links: CVE-2016-9923 - Bugzilla

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