medium6.5
CVE-2016-9845
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to an information leakage issue.
Impact
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to an information leakage issue. It could occur while processing 'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET_INFO' command. A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak contents of the host memory bytes.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Qemu | Qemu | before 2.8.0 Version 2.8.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/15
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/22
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94763
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00019.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/15
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/22
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94763
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00019.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49