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CVE-2016-9846

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to a...

6.5 MediumFix available

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.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
Low
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

0.42%Down 0.5 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 6.5

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.

Record
CVE-2016-9846
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0
4.9 MediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weakness
CWE-119
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

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.

Record
CVE-2016-9846
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2016-10646 No score

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.

Record
EUVD-2016-10646
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-gwq3-r3rx-h2mh 6.5

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to a...

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.

Record
GHSA-gwq3-r3rx-h2mh
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-119
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 6.5

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.

Record
CVE-2016-9846
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2016-9846 6.5

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.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9846
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2016-9846 6.5

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.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9846
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:0127-1 No score

Security update for qemu

qemu was updated to fix several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2016-9102: Memory leak in the v9fs_xattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in allowed local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and QEMU process crash) via a large number of Txattrcreate messages with the same fid number (bsc#1014256).
  • CVE-2016-9103: The v9fs_xattrcreate function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in allowed local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive host heap memory information by reading xattribute values writing to them (bsc#1007454).
  • CVE-2016-9381: Improper processing of shared rings allowing guest administrators take over the qemu process, elevating their privilege to that of the qemu process (bsc#1009109)
  • CVE-2016-9776: The ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller emulator support was vulnerable to an infinite loop issue while receiving packets in 'mcf_fec_receive'. A privileged user/process inside guest could have used this issue to crash the Qemu process on the host leading to DoS (bsc#1013285).
  • CVE-2016-9845: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support as vulnerable to an information leakage issue while processing the 'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET_INFO' command. A guest user/process could have used this flaw to leak contents of the host memory (bsc#1013767).
  • CVE-2016-9846: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue while updating the cursor data in update_cursor_data_virgl. A guest user/process could have used this flaw to leak host memory bytes, resulting in DoS for the host (bsc#1013764).
  • CVE-2016-9907: The USB redirector usb-guest support was vulnerable to a memory leakage flaw when destroying the USB redirector in 'usbredir_handle_destroy'. A guest user/process could have used this issue to leak host memory, resulting in DoS for a host (bsc#1014109).
  • CVE-2016-9908: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support was vulnerable to an information leakage issue while processing the 'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET' command. A guest user/process could have used this flaw to leak contents of the host memory (bsc#1014514).
  • CVE-2016-9911: The USB EHCI Emulation support was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue while processing packet data in 'ehci_init_transfer'. A guest user/process could have used this issue to leak host memory, resulting in DoS for the host (bsc#1014111).
  • CVE-2016-9912: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue while destroying gpu resource object in 'virtio_gpu_resource_destroy'. A guest user/process could have used this flaw to leak host memory bytes, resulting in DoS for the host (bsc#1014112).
  • CVE-2016-9913: VirtFS was vulnerable to memory leakage issue via its '9p-handle' or '9p-proxy' backend drivers. A privileged user inside guest could have used this flaw to leak host memory, thus affecting other services on the host and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on the host (bsc#1014110).

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • Fixed uint64 property parsing and add regression tests (bsc#937125)
  • Added a man page for kvm_stat
  • Fix crash in vte (bsc#1008519)
  • Various upstream commits targeted towards stable releases (bsc#1013341)
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:0127-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-3261-1 No score

qemu vulnerabilities

Zhenhao Hong discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-10028, CVE-2016-10029)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the 6300esb watchdog. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-10155)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the i.MX Fast Ethernet Controller. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7907)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the JAZZ RC4030 device. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-8667)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the 16550A UART device. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-8669)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the shared rings when used with Xen. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host. (CVE-2016-9381)

Jann Horn discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VirtFS directory sharing. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to access files on the host file system outside of the shared directory and possibly escalate their privileges. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2016-9602)

Gerd Hoffmann discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Cirrus VGA device when being used with a VNC connection. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2016-9603)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-9776)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to leak contents of host memory. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-9845, CVE-2016-9908)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-9846, CVE-2016-9912, CVE-2017-5552, CVE-2017-5578, CVE-2017-5857)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the USB redirector. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-9907)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB EHCI emulation. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-9911)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VirtFS directory sharing. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-9913, CVE-2016-9914, CVE-2016-9915, CVE-2016-9916)

Qinghao Tang, Li Qiang, and Jiangxin discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Cirrus VGA device. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.…

Record
USN-3261-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
qemu
Debian:12
before 1:2.8+dfsg-1
1:2.8+dfsg-1
qemu
Debian:13
before 1:2.8+dfsg-1
1:2.8+dfsg-1
qemu
Debian:14
before 1:2.8+dfsg-1
1:2.8+dfsg-1
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 13 CVEs
before 2.6.2-39.1
2.6.2-39.1
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 13 CVEs
before 2.6.2-39.1
2.6.2-39.1
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 13 CVEs
before 2.6.2-39.1
2.6.2-39.1
qemu
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
From an advisory covering 13 CVEs
before 2.6.2-39.1
2.6.2-39.1
qemu
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11, plus listed versions
1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu91:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu101:2.4+dfsg-4ubuntu11:2.4+dfsg-4ubuntu21:2.4+dfsg-4ubuntu3
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1:2.4+dfsg-5ubuntu31:2.5+dfsg-1ubuntu21:2.5+dfsg-1ubuntu31:2.5+dfsg-1ubuntu41:2.5+dfsg-1ubuntu51:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu11:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu21:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu41:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu61:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu71:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu101:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.21:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.31:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.41:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.61:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.71:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.81:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.91:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.10
1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11
qemu
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 37 CVEs
before 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.33, plus listed versions
1.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu51.5.0+dfsg-3ubuntu61.6.0+dfsg-2ubuntu11.6.0+dfsg-2ubuntu21.6.0+dfsg-2ubuntu3
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1.6.0+dfsg-2ubuntu41.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu11.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu21.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu31.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu41.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu51.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu71.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu81.7.0+dfsg-2ubuntu91.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu1~ppa11.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu11.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu21.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu31.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu41.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu51.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu61.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu72.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu12.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu22.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu32.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu3.12.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu12.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.12.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.32.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.52.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.62.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.72.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.82.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.92.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.102.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.112.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.132.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.142.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.152.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.162.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.172.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.182.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.192.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.202.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.212.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.222.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.242.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.252.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.26
2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.33
qemu
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
From an advisory covering 37 CVEs
before 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11, plus listed versions
1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu91:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu101:2.4+dfsg-4ubuntu11:2.4+dfsg-4ubuntu21:2.4+dfsg-4ubuntu3
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1:2.4+dfsg-5ubuntu31:2.5+dfsg-1ubuntu21:2.5+dfsg-1ubuntu31:2.5+dfsg-1ubuntu41:2.5+dfsg-1ubuntu51:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu11:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu21:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu41:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu61:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu71:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu101:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.21:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.31:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.41:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.51:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.61:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.71:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.81:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.91:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.10
1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11

History

History
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aliasesEUVD
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Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2016-9846 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Qemu, published December 29, 2016. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.42%, the 36th percentile. Fixed in qemu 1:2.8+dfsg-1.

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