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Information Exposure Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.8+dfsg-1

0.0
low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.05% (19th percentile)
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NVD
3.3 low
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Red Hat
4.1 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-QEMU-428390
  • published 23 Dec 2016
  • disclosed 23 Dec 2016
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Introduced: 23 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-9908 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-200 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable 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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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.