CVE-2016-9845

MEDIUM

Qemu < 2.8.0 - Information Disclosure

Title source: rule

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)

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/15

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/22

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94763

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00019.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0009

EPSS Percentile 26.4%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-200

Status published

Affected Products (5)

qemu/qemu < 2.8.0

qemu/qemu

qemu/qemu

qemu/qemu

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Dec 29, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026