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CVE-2016-9912 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:6.5 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 CVEThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/6 CVEMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94760 CVEThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 [email protected]Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/6 [email protected]Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-772Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
qemu qemu
<= 2.8.1.1

CPE

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

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-9912
NVD Published Date:
Dec 23, 2016
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2016-9912 Details - Not Deferred