vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-9845: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 29, 2016
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

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.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-qemu
Title
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