CVE-2016-9846: Buffer Overflow
First published: Thu Dec 29 2016(Updated: )
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while updating the cursor data in update_cursor_data_virgl. A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak host memory bytes, resulting in DoS for a host.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| QEMU qemu | <=2.7.1 | |
| QEMU qemu | =2.8.0-rc0 | |
| QEMU qemu | =2.8.0-rc1 | |
| QEMU qemu | =2.8.0-rc2 |
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- version/qemu qemu/2.8.0-rc2