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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-9908: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-9908: QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
12/23/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-qemu

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