CVE-2016-9908

low

Published 2016-12-23 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

3.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2

2.1

VIR risk

3.3

Description

Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to an information leakage issue. It could occur while processing 'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET' command. A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak contents of the host memory bytes.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

34%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9908

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9908.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/4

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
qemu	qemu	`{"endIncluding":"2.8.1.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.