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FKIE_CVE-2016-9845

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-12-29 22:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:56

Severity

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Summary

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.

References

URL	Tags
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/15	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/22	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94763	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.com	https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00019.html	Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/15	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/22	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94763	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00019.html	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
qemu	qemu	*
qemu	qemu	2.8.0
qemu	qemu	2.8.0
qemu	qemu	2.8.0

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CVE-2016-9845 (GCVE-0-2016-9845)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-12-29 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:59

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/1…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94763	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/1…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Date Public

2016-11-01 00:00

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CVE-2016-9845 (GCVE-0-2016-9845)

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