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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2016-9103

Severity Medium
Score 6/10

Summary

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.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published