Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting qemu package, versions <1:2.8+dfsg-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Scope
Changed
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.05% (20th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-QEMU-517296
- published 23 Dec 2016
- disclosed 23 Dec 2016
Introduced: 23 Dec 2016
CVE-2016-9912 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11 qemu to version 1:2.8+dfsg-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu package and not the qemu package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.