vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-9923: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 23, 2016
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-qemu
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