CVE-2016-9845

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-200 Information Leak / Disclosure

Publication date:

29/12/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

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 &#39;VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET_INFO&#39; command. A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak contents of the host memory bytes.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

6.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.10 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

2.10

Severity 2.0

LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu::::::::		2.8.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.8.0:rc0::::::
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.8.0:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.8.0:rc2::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2016-9845

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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