cve-2016-9846
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-12-29 22:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:59
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/18Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/23Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94765Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00029.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/18Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/23Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94765Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00029.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory
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