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CVE-2016-7994
MEDIUM · CVSS 6
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-12-10T00:59:21.547 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:53:54.503

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.

Affected products

qemu — qemu

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References

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