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
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
qemu
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
precise |
Does not exist
|
| trusty |
Not vulnerable
(code not present)
|
|
| upstream |
Needs triage
|
|
| xenial |
Released
(1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.6)
|
|
| yakkety |
Released
(1:2.6.1+dfsg-0ubuntu5.1)
|
|
|
Patches:
upstream: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=cb3a0522b694cc5bb6424497b3f828ccd28fd1dd |
||
|
qemu-kvm
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
precise |
Not vulnerable
(code not present)
|
| trusty |
Does not exist
|
|
| upstream |
Not vulnerable
|
|
| xenial |
Does not exist
|
|
| yakkety |
Does not exist
|
|
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score | 6.0 |
| Attack vector | Local |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | High |
| User interaction | None |
| Scope | Changed |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity impact | None |
| Availability impact | High |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |