CVE-2016-9845

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Summary

CVECVE-2016-9845
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-12-29 22:59:00 UTC
Updated2020-11-10 19:23:00 UTC
DescriptionQEMU (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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-200

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.8.0 rc0 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.8.0 rc1 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.8.0 rc2 All All
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.8.0 rc0 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.8.0 rc1 All All
Application Qemu Qemu 2.8.0 rc2 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Re: CVE request: Qemu: display: virtio-gpu-3d: information leakage in virgl_cmd_get_capset_info MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - CVE request: Qemu: display: virtio-gpu-3d: information leakage in virgl_cmd_get_capset_info MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201701-49) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-gpu: fix information leak in getting capset MLIST lists.nongnu.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
QEMU '/hw/display/virtio-gpu-3d.c' Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710389 Gentoo Linux QEMU Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201701-49)
  • 900063 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for qemu-kvm 4.2.0
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