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CVE-2016-9923
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-12-23T22:59:00.580 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:56:47.540

Summary

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

qemu — qemu

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References

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