Information Exposure Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.8+dfsg-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (24th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-QEMU-427556
- published 29 Dec 2016
- disclosed 29 Dec 2016
Introduced: 29 Dec 2016
CVE-2016-9845 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10
qemu
to version 1:2.8+dfsg-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu
package and not the qemu
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:10
relevant fixed versions and status.
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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9845
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00019.html
- 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
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-9845