CVE-2016-9912 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Qemu

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective LifetimeCWE-244 — Heap Inspection12 documents7 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV9.8OSV5.5
EPSS
0.1%
top 70.48%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
QemuPhp5Debian Qemu
Timeline
PublishedDec 23
Latest updateMay 13

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.0 | 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-2ubuntu1.33+1
▶NVDqemu/qemu2.8.1.1
▶Ubuntuphp5/php5< 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.21

Patches

Patch: www.openwall.com ↗Patch: www.openwall.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-5x35-9r35-66x7: Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue↗2022-05-13
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OSV
qemu vulnerabilities↗2017-04-20
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OSV
php5 vulnerabilities↗2017-02-14
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OSV
CVE-2016-9912: Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue↗2016-12-23
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
QEMU vulnerabilities↗2017-04-25
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Ubuntu
QEMU vulnerabilities↗2017-04-20
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Red Hat
Qemu: display: virtio-gpu: memory leakage when destroying gpu resource↗2016-11-28
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Debian
CVE-2016-9912: qemu - Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulne...↗2016
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9912 Qemu: display: virtio-gpu: memory leakage when destroying gpu resource [fedora-all]↗2016-12-07
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9912 Qemu: display: virtio-gpu: memory leakage when destroying gpu resource↗2016-12-07
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Bugzilla
CVE-2014-9912 php: stack buffer overflow in locale_get_display_name↗2016-11-29
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