Security Advisory
CVE-2016-9846
6.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
December 29, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory