CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6836
6.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-665
Description
The vmxnet3_complete_packet function in hw/net/vmxnet3.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive host memory information by leveraging failure to initialize the txcq_descr object.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.7.1)
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness
References
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fdda170e50b8af062cf5741e12c4fb5e57a2eacf git.qemu.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/11/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92444 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg02108.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fdda170e50b8af062cf5741e12c4fb5e57a2eacf git.qemu.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/11/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92444 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg02108.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01 Third Party Advisory