What is CVE-2016-9908?

CVE-2016-9908 is a low-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2016-12-23.

How severe is CVE-2016-9908?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Qemu

CVE-2016-9908

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.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.004 (32.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Qemu
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-9908?: CVE-2016-9908 is a low-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2016-12-23.
How severe is CVE-2016-9908?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.