CVE-2016-9103

Description

The v9fs_xattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive host heap memory information by reading xattribute values before writing to them.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg01790.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93955

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/30/7

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/28/1

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb687602853b4ae656e9236ee4222609f3a6887d

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3