CVE-2016-7994

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-12-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-772

Description

Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_resource_create_2d function in hw/display/virtio-gpu.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_RESOURCE_CREATE_2D commands.

Affected products

openSUSE Leap: 42.2
QEMU: through 2.7.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/07/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/08/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93453
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg04083.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/07/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/08/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93453
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg04083.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11

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