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.
References
Link Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94760 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/6 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory
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Configurations

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cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2016-12-23 14:59

Updated : 2020-12-14 12:03


NVD link : CVE-2016-9912

Mitre link : CVE-2016-9912


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CWE
CWE-772

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

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Products Affected

qemu

  • qemu