Use After Free Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.8+dfsg-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.05% (20th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN12-QEMU-1558137
- published 23 Dec 2016
- disclosed 23 Dec 2016
Introduced: 23 Dec 2016
CVE-2016-9923 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:12
qemu
to version 1:2.8+dfsg-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu
package and not the qemu
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:12
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.