Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qemu-kvm  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-QEMUKVM-619046
  • published29 Dec 2016
  • disclosed29 Dec 2016

Introduced: 29 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-9845  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-kvm package and not the qemu-kvm package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.