Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qemu-kvm  (opens in a new tab)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-631200
  • published1 Nov 2014
  • disclosed1 Nov 2014

Introduced: 1 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-3615  (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.

The VGA emulator in QEMU allows local guest users to read host memory by setting the display to a high resolution.