CVE-2016-9912

medium
Published 2016-12-23 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
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 Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9912

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9912.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/6

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:2.8+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:2.8+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:2.8+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed1:2.8+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:2.8+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.8.1.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-772

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.