CVE-2016-9912

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2016-12-23

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-772

Affected products

• Qemu (Qemu)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94760
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49