CVE-2016-7994 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Qemu

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime9 documents7 sources
Severity
6.0MEDIUMNVD
OSV5.5
EPSS
0.1%
top 64.39%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
QemuDebian QemuOpensuse Leap
Timeline
PublishedDec 10
Latest updateMay 13

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.5 | Impact: 4.0

Affected Packages5 packages

▶debiandebian/qemu< qemu 1:2.8+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianqemu/qemu< 1:2.8+dfsg-1+3
▶Ubuntuqemu/qemu< 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.30+1
▶NVDqemu/qemu2.7.1
▶NVDopensuse/leap42.2

Patches

Patch: lists.gnu.org ↗Patch: lists.gnu.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-cprp-j4pp-r824: Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_resource_create_2d function in hw/display/virtio-gpu↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2016-7994: Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_resource_create_2d function in hw/display/virtio-gpu↗2016-12-10
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OSV
qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities↗2016-11-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
QEMU vulnerabilities↗2016-11-09
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Red Hat
Qemu: virtio-gpu: memory leak in virtio_gpu_resource_create_2d↗2016-09-19
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Debian
CVE-2016-7994: qemu - Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_resource_create_2d function in hw/display/virtio-g...↗2016
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-7994 Qemu: virtio-gpu: memory leak in virtio_gpu_resource_create_2d [fedora-all]↗2016-10-07
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-7994 Qemu: virtio-gpu: memory leak in virtio_gpu_resource_create_2d↗2016-10-07
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