medium5.5
CVE-2016-9923
Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the 'chardev' backend support is vulnerable to a use after free issue.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Qemu | Qemu | through 2.7.1 |