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
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/15 | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/22 | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94763 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00019.html | Patch Vendor Advisory |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 | Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2016-12-29T22:00:00
Updated: 2017-06-30T16:57:01
Reserved: 2016-12-05T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-9845
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2016-12-29T22:59:00.543
Modified: 2020-11-10T19:23:05.543
Link: CVE-2016-9845
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE