CVE-2016-9845 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Qemu
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV5.5
EPSS
0.1%
top 73.65%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 29
Latest updateMay 13
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.0 | Impact: 4.0
Affected Packages4 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-4q8m-h7mw-rppj: QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to an information leakage issue↗2022-05-13
OSV▶
CVE-2016-9845: QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to an information leakage issue↗2016-12-29