What is CVE-2016-9845?

CVE-2016-9845 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2016-12-29.

How severe is CVE-2016-9845?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Qemu

CVE-2016-9845

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.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.004 (34.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Qemu — versions 2.8.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Patch)
secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-9845?: CVE-2016-9845 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2016-12-29.
How severe is CVE-2016-9845?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.