CVE-2016-9846
MEDIUMQEMU < 2.7.1 - Memory Leak in Virtio GPU Cursor Update
Title source: llmDescription
QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while updating the cursor data in update_cursor_data_virgl. A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak host memory bytes, resulting in DoS for a host.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/23
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/18
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
Patch, Vendor Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg00029.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94765
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0008
EPSS Percentile
24.4%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (2)
qemu/qemu
2.8.0 rc0 (3 CPE variants)
qemu/qemu
< 2.7.1
Published
Dec 29, 2016
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026