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CVE-2016-10029

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10029 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in QEMU's Virtio GPU Device emulator. A local guest OS user can trigger an out-of-bounds read and crash the QEMU process by providing a scanout ID larger than expected in a VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_SET_SCANOUT command. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability requires local access and has a high impact on availability, but no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-10029Moderate

Qemu: display: virtio-gpu: out of bounds read in virtio_gpu_set_scanout

May 19, 2016

References

git.qemu-project.org
git.qemu-project.org
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/12/20/2
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/12/22/15
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/94978
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1037526
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry