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.
References
Link Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/6 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94760 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49 Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2016-12-23T22:00:00

Updated: 2017-06-30T16:57:01

Reserved: 2016-12-08T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2016-9912

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2016-12-23T22:59:00.517

Modified: 2020-12-14T20:03:28.920


Link: CVE-2016-9912

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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CWE