Quick Emulator (Qemu) 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' command. A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak contents of the host memory bytes.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2016-9908 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
Base Score | 2.3 |
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Base Metrics | AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N |
Access Vector | Adjacent Network |
Access Complexity | Medium |
Authentication | Single |
Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
Integrity Impact | None |
Availability Impact | None |
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS3 Base Score | 4.1 |
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CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N |
Attack Vector | Adjacent Network |
Attack Complexity | Low |
Privileges Required | Low |
User Interaction | None |
Scope | Changed |
Confidentiality | Low |
Integrity Impact | None |
Availability Impact | None |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
Platform | Package | State |
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Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) | qemu-kvm-rhev | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 | qemu-kvm-rhev | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 | qemu-kvm-rhev | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) | qemu-kvm-rhev | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | qemu-kvm-rhev | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | qemu-kvm | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | qemu-kvm | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kvm | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | xen | Not affected |