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CVE-2016-9908

Publication date 23 December 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

3.3 · Low

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
qemu 17.04 zesty
Fixed 1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2.1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 1:2.6.1+dfsg-0ubuntu5.4
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
qemu-kvm 17.04 zesty Not in release
16.10 yakkety Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected

Patch details

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Package Patch details
qemu

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 3.3 · Low
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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