Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 29, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2016-9845

Description

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) 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_INFO' command. A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak contents of the host memory bytes.

Affected products

QEMU/Qemu4 versions
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
- cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <2.8.0
- cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.8.0:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.8.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:2.8.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00019.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/15nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/22nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94763nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49nvdThird Party Advisory

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