Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 23, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2016-9912
CVE-2016-9912
Description
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.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
3- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/6nvdMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/94760nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49nvdThird Party Advisory
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