PT-2016-7131 · Qemu Team+3 · Qemu+3

Li Qiang · Published 2016-08-18 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-6836

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.0

Medium

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive host memory information. This is due to a failure to initialize the txcq descr object in the vmxnet3 complete packet function.

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

Improper Initialization

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-665

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1043

CVE-2016-6836

DLA-1599-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2494-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2497-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2642-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11287-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2473-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2507-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2533-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2589-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2781-1

USN-3125-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Qemu

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 493

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3125-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17963 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8577 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9103 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg02108.html · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7909 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2781-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6888 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7908 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-1599-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8578 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4037 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00071 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00069 · Security Note