CVE-2016-9845

MEDIUM

QEMU < 2.8.0 - Information Disclosure via Virtio GPU Device Emulator

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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 (5)

Core 5
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/22
Patch, Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00019.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94763
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/15

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0009
EPSS Percentile 26.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-200
Status published
Products (2)
qemu/qemu 2.8.0 rc0 (3 CPE variants)
qemu/qemu < 2.8.0
Published Dec 29, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026