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.
References
Link Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/4 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94761 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2016-12-23T22:00:00

Updated: 2017-06-30T16:57:01

Reserved: 2016-12-08T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2016-9908

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2016-12-23T22:59:00.440

Modified: 2020-12-14T20:00:23.777


Link: CVE-2016-9908

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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CWE