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 |
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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 |
Configurations
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
Products Affected
qemu
- qemu