PT-2016-3007 · Qemu+3 · Qemu+3

Prasad J Pandit · Published 2016-12-29 · Updated 2020-11-10 · CVE-2016-9846

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is caused by a buffer overflow in the memory of the QEMU hardware emulator's Virtio GPU emulator. It may allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service by crashing the application. A memory leakage issue could occur while updating cursor data, potentially allowing a guest user or process to leak host memory bytes, resulting in a denial of service for the host.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1043

BDU:2017-00076

CVE-2016-9846

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_0194-1

SUSE-SU-2017:0127-1

USN-3261-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Qemu

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 204

• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00076 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9915 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00074 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8577 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6833 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9602 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9913 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00647 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5857 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5667 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7161 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2021-03332 · Security Note
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00029.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8576 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7909 · Security Note