CVE-2016-9912

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium

CVSS6.5

Exploit probability—

ProductQemu

PublishedDec 23, 2016

First seenDec 23, 2016

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
qemu qemu	v ≤ 2.8.1.1	—

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