CVE-2016-9846

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while updating the cursor data in update_cursor_data_virgl. A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak host memory bytes, resulting in DoS for a host.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/18Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/23Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94765Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00029.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/18Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/23Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94765Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00029.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Dec 29, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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