CVE-2016-6836: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.7.1

Published 2016-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.