CVE-2016-7994
MEDIUM6.0EPSS 0.15%Published: 12/10/2016Modified: 11/19/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2016-7994DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7994
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/qemufrom 0, < 2.8.1-r1
- Debian/qemufrom 0, < 1:2.8+dfsg-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |