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CVE-2016-9912

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2016-12-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

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

• QEMU: through 2.8.1.1

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94760
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94760
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49

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