CVE-2016-9912
Published: 23 December 2016
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.
Priority
CVSS 3 base score: 6.5
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
qemu Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
precise |
Does not exist
|
| trusty |
Not vulnerable
(code not present)
|
|
| upstream |
Needed
|
|
| xenial |
Released
(1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11)
|
|
| yakkety |
Released
(1:2.6.1+dfsg-0ubuntu5.4)
|
|
| zesty |
Released
(1:2.8+dfsg-3ubuntu2.1)
|
|
|
Patches: upstream: http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=b8e23926c568f2e963af39028b71c472e3023793 |
||
|
qemu-kvm Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
precise |
Not vulnerable
(code not present)
|
| trusty |
Does not exist
|
|
| upstream |
Needed
|
|
| xenial |
Does not exist
|
|
| yakkety |
Does not exist
|
|
| zesty |
Does not exist
|
|
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9912
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg05043.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/12
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3261-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3268-1
- NVD
- Launchpad
- Debian