Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2016-9845

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to an information leakage issue. It could occur while processing 'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET_INFO' command. A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak contents of the host memory bytes.

  • Published: Dec 29, 2016
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2016-9845
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.5
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 2.1
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
qemu / qemu - 2.8.0
qemu / qemu 2.8.0-rc0 2.8.0-rc0.x
qemu / qemu 2.8.0-rc1 2.8.0-rc1.x
qemu / qemu 2.8.0-rc2 2.8.0-rc2.x