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LIN8-5292 : Security Advisory - qemu - CVE-2016-6836

Created: Dec 15, 2016 Updated: Dec 3, 2018

Resolved Date: Jan 5, 2017

Found In Version: 8.0.0.11

Fix Version: 8.0.0.13

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8

Component/s: Userspace

Description

The vmxnet3_complete_packet function in hw/net/vmxnet3.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive host memory information by leveraging failure to initialize the txcq_descr object.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-6836

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CVE-2016-6836