CVE-2016-6836

medium

Published 2016-12-10 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

6.0

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

60%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:2.6+dfsg-3.1`
sid	Fixed	`1:2.6+dfsg-3.1`
forky	Fixed	`1:2.6+dfsg-3.1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:2.6+dfsg-3.1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:2.6+dfsg-3.1`
8.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
qemu	qemu	`{"endIncluding":"2.7.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-665

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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