Information Exposure Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.9.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3006907
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Dec 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Dec 2016

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

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 2.9.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. 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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