Information Exposure Affecting libcacard-tools package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBCACARDTOOLS-1354045
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed11 Aug 2016

Introduced: 11 Aug 2016

CVE-2016-6836  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 libcacard-tools.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcacard-tools package and not the libcacard-tools package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The vmxnet3_complete_packet function in hw/net/vmxnet3.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive host memory information by leveraging failure to initialize the txcq_descr object.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1