6.5

CVE-2016-9845: qemu

CVSS: 6.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2016-9845DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9845
Published 29-12-2016Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-9845 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in qemu. EPSS estimates a 0.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
26/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.42%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 2
SUSE-SU-2017:0127-1USN-3261-1

Timeline

  1. 29-12-2016
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 3 sources · 3 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.42%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

34%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.42% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.42%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • qemu< 1:2.8+dfsg-1
Qemu1 product
  • qemu< 2.8.0 | 2.8.0:rc0 | 2.8.0:rc1 | 2.8.0:rc2
Ubuntu1 product
  • qemu< 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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