Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6836

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MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

The vmxnet3_complete_packet function in hw/net/vmxnet3.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive host memory information by leveraging failure to initialize the txcq_descr object.
Published Date December 10, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory