CVE-2016-9908

Published: 23 December 2016

Quick Emulator (Qemu) 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' command. A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak contents of the host memory bytes.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

3.3

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
qemu Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Released (1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11)
	yakkety	Released (1:2.6.1+dfsg-0ubuntu5.4)
	zesty	Released (1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2.1)
	Patches: upstream: http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=85d9d044471f93c48c5c396f7e217b4ef12f69f8
qemu-kvm Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
	yakkety	Does not exist
	zesty	Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	3.3
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=847400

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