PT-2016-3003 · Qemu+3 · Qemu+3

Published 2016-12-23 · Updated 2020-12-14 · CVE-2016-9912

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Qemu (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to a memory leakage problem in Qemu when built with Virtio GPU Device emulator support. It occurs while destroying the gpu resource object in virtio gpu resource destroy. A guest user or process could exploit this flaw to leak host memory bytes, potentially resulting in a denial of service (DoS) for the host. The exploitation of this issue may also allow a local attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

CWE-772

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1521

BDU:2017-00072

CVE-2016-9912

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_0194-1

SUSE-SU-2017:0127-1

USN-3261-1

USN-3268-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Qemu

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 177

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-2615 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00076 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9330 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9916 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9912 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00647 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9915 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10029 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00077 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7718 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7907 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00072 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10029 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5987 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18030 · Security Note