PT-2016-7652
CVE-2016-9103
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Published
2016-10-31
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Updated
2024-06-15
Description by
CVSS 3.1
6.0
MediumMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) versions not specified
Description
The issue allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive host heap memory information. This is achieved by reading xattribute values before writing to them, leveraging the v9fs xattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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