CVE-2016-9845medium
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.
References
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/15
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/22
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94763
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00019.html
Details
Source: MITRE
Published: 2016-12-29
Updated: 2020-11-10
Type: CWE-200
Risk Information
CVSS v2
Base Score: 2.1
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Impact Score: 2.9
Exploitability Score: 3.9
Severity: LOW
CVSS v3
Base Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Impact Score: 4
Exploitability Score: 2
Severity: MEDIUM