Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6836

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-10 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:43:37
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

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.