What is CVE-2016-9912?

CVE-2016-9912 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2016-12-23.

How severe is CVE-2016-9912?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Qemu

CVE-2016-9912

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.

EPSS: 0.004 (33.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Qemu
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-9912?: CVE-2016-9912 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qemu, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2016-12-23.
How severe is CVE-2016-9912?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.