CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9846
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while updating the cursor data in update_cursor_data_virgl. A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak host memory bytes, resulting in DoS for a host.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.7.1)
• qemu qemu 2.8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/18 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/23 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94765 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00029.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/18 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/23 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94765 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00029.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory