CVE-2016-9845

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium

CVSS6.5

Exploit probability—

ProductQemu

PublishedDec 29, 2016

First seenDec 29, 2016

How to fix

Update

qemu qemu2.8.0 or later

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
qemu qemu	v < 2.8.0, 2.8.0	2.8.0

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