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Debian: CVE-2016-6836: qemu -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 9, 2016
Added
Feb 20, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The vmxnet3_complete_packet function in hw/net/vmxnet3.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive host memory information by leveraging failure to initialize the txcq_descr object.

Solution

debian-upgrade-qemu
Title
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