Memory Leakage Vulnerability in Qemu Virtio GPU Device Emulator

Memory Leakage Vulnerability in Qemu Virtio GPU Device Emulator

CVE-2016-9912 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

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