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CVE-2016-9846
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while…
Medium6.5EPSS 0.42%
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.42% · top 64% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (5)
- [oss-security] 20161205 Re: CVE request Qemu: display: virtio-gpu: memory leakage while updating cursor (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20161205 CVE request Qemu: display: virtio-gpu: memory leakage while updating cursor (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- GLSA-201701-49 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- [qemu-devel] 20161101 [PATCH] virtio-gpu: fix memory leak in update_cursor_data_virgl (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 94765 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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