Security Advisory
CVE-2016-9912
6.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
December 23, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory