CVE-2016-9845: Infoleak
First published: Thu Dec 29 2016(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| QEMU qemu | <2.8.0 | |
| QEMU qemu | =2.8.0-rc0 | |
| QEMU qemu | =2.8.0-rc1 | |
| QEMU qemu | =2.8.0-rc2 |
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