CVE-2016-9912

MEDIUM

Qemu < 2.8.1.1 - Memory Leak in Virtio GPU Resource Destruction

Title source: llm

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.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/6

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94760

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0011

EPSS Percentile 29.1%

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-772

Status published

Products (1)

qemu/qemu < 2.8.1.1

Published Dec 23, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026