Information Exposure Affecting libcacard-tools package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (26th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-LIBCACARDTOOLS-1354045
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 11 Aug 2016
Introduced: 11 Aug 2016
CVE-2016-6836 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92444
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=fdda170e50b8af062cf5741e12c4fb5e57a2eacf
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6836
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg02108.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/11/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/5
- http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fdda170e50b8af062cf5741e12c4fb5e57a2eacf
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