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CVE-2016-7994
Published: Dec 10, 2016
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
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References
93453
vdb-entry
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GLSA-201611-11
vendor-advisory
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[oss-security] 20161007 CVE request Qemu virtio-gpu: memory leak in virtio_gpu_resource_create_2d
mailing-list
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openSUSE-SU-2016:3237
vendor-advisory
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[qemu-devel] 20160919 Re: [PATCH] virtio-gpu: fix memory leak in virtio_gpu_resource_create_2d
mailing-list
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[oss-security] 20161008 Re: CVE request Qemu virtio-gpu: memory leak in virtio_gpu_resource_create_2d
mailing-list
x_refsource_MLIST
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