VDB
CVE-2016-9846
CVE-2016-9846
PUBLISHED
CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM
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.
EPSS 0.42% · 33.8th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.0
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.42%
33.8th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | qemu | 0, 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9, 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu10 |
Timeline
- Dec 29, 2016 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 21, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 13, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 5, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 11, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 5, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 28, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9846 third-party-advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00029.html third-party-advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/23 third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3261-1 vendor-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9846 third-party-advisory