CVE-2016-9845 Information

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:N

Reference

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 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.5