CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9912
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-772
Description
Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while destroying gpu resource object in 'virtio_gpu_resource_destroy'. A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak host memory bytes, resulting in DoS for a host.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 2.8.1.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/6 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94760 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/6 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94760 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory