Information Exposure Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,2.2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-3006949
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Nov 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-3615  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 2.2.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The VGA emulator in QEMU allows local guest users to read host memory by setting the display to a high resolution.

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