CVE-2016-9912 (GCVE-0-2016-9912)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-12-23 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 03:07
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/6 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94760 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2016-12-07 00:00
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