CVE-2016-7994
Published: 11 October 2016
Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_resource_create_2d function in hw/display/virtio-gpu.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_RESOURCE_CREATE_2D commands.
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| ratliff | Note from Debian: "Vulnerable code introduced in 2.4.0-rc0" |
Priority
CVSS 3 base score: 6.0
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
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qemu-kvm Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
upstream |
Not vulnerable
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| precise |
Not vulnerable
(code not present)
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| trusty |
Does not exist
|
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| xenial |
Does not exist
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| yakkety |
Does not exist
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qemu Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
upstream |
Needs triage
|
| precise |
Does not exist
|
|
| trusty |
Not vulnerable
(code not present)
|
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| xenial |
Released
(1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.6)
|
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| yakkety |
Released
(1:2.6.1+dfsg-0ubuntu5.1)
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Patches: upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=cb3a0522b694cc5bb6424497b3f828ccd28fd1dd |
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