PT-2016-7460 · Qemu Team+3 · Qemu+3

Li Qiang · Published 2016-10-11 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-7994

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) (affected versions not specified)

Description A memory leak issue exists, allowing local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service through excessive memory consumption. This is achieved by sending a large number of VIRTIO GPU CMD RESOURCE CREATE 2D commands, exploiting the virtio gpu resource create 2d function in hw/display/virtio-gpu.c.

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

DoS

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-772

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1043

CVE-2016-7994

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11287-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2879-1

USN-3125-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Qemu

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 291

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3125-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8577 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9103 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7909 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6888 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7908 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8578 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00071 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00069 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7155 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7994 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7994 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9105 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7157 · Vendor Advisory