CVE-2016-9846

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

0.41% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 35.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2016-12-29 22:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 02:59Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-12-05

Assigning CNA

redhat

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
• CWE-244Improper Clearing of Heap Memory Before Release ('Heap Inspection')Variant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

539e65bc39f4b06a9d20a9a46459459341b871feec72594a9e71f295854cefb8

• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161205 Re: CVE request Qemu: display: virtio-gpu: memory leakage while updating cursorhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/23mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161205 CVE request Qemu: display: virtio-gpu: memory leakage while updating cursorhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/18mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201701-49https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• lists.gnu.org[qemu-devel] 20161101 [PATCH] virtio-gpu: fix memory leak in update_cursor_data_virglhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00029.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.securityfocus.com94765http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94765vdb-entryx_refsource_BID