What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-9908

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-12-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

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.

Affected products

• QEMU: through 2.8.1.1

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94761
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94761
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49

Get alerted when CVE-2016-9908 or the next vulnerability affects your stack