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: 2016-12-29
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-10646 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3261-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:59:03.577Z

Reserved: 2016-12-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-9846

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-12-29T22:59:00.573

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-9846

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-9846 - Bugzilla

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