CVE-2016-9846 | BDVDB-2026-79991 Detail

Description#

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/23
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/18
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00029.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94765

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12016-12-29Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.