Information Exposure Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-QEMU-428387
  • published23 Dec 2016
  • disclosed23 Dec 2016

Introduced: 23 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-9908  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 qemu to version 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 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.

CVSS Scores

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