VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2016-9912
Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue.
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 0.40%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.40%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.40% probability · 34th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-772
- Affected
- qemu/qemu
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/6Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94760Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/6Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94760Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.