CVE-2016-9912

CVSS V2 Medium 4.9 CVSS V3 Medium 6.5

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2016-9912

Assigner
secalert@redhat.com

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2016-12-23T22:59:00

Last Modified Date
2020-12-14T20:03:28

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-772	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/772.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu::::::::	1	OR		2.8.1.1

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Access Vector
LOCAL

Access Compatibility
LOW

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
COMPLETE

Base Score
4.9

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
3.9

Impact Score
6.9

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.1

Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
LOW

User Interaction
NONE

Scope
CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
6.5

Base Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
2

Impact Score
4

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94760	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/6	Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-49	Third Party Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9912
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9912

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 07:30:29				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 12:35:18	2016-12-23T22:59Z	2016-12-23T22:59:00	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-02 12:35:18		2020-12-14T20:03:28	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-02 12:35:18		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated