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GHSA-gwq3-r3rx-h2mh
GHSA-gwq3-r3rx-h2mh
PUBLISHED
CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022
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.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Timeline
- May 13, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 29, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00029.html url
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/18 url
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 url
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94765 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9846 advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/23 url