CVE-2016-7994 in QEMU

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 09/09/2016
• Disclosure: 12/09/2016
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-94011 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-399 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 6.0
• EPSS: 0.00150
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7994
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7994
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-7994/