CVE-2016-9912

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.

• CWE-772

• 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

Published

Dec 23, 2016

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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