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.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/09/2 | Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94827 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 | Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2016-12-23T22:00:00
Updated: 2017-06-30T16:57:01
Reserved: 2016-12-08T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-9923
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2016-12-23T22:59:00.580
Modified: 2020-12-14T20:16:27.500
Link: CVE-2016-9923
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Redhat Information
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CWE