CVE-2016-9912
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v2
4.9
VIR risk
6.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9912
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9912.html
Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/6
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:2.8+dfsg-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| qemu | qemu | {"endIncluding":"2.8.1.1"} | |
References
CWEs
CWE-772
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.