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LIN9-2858 : Security Advisory - qemu - CVE-2016-9912

Created: Dec 28, 2016    Updated: May 29, 2018
Resolved Date: Jan 11, 2017
Found In Version: unknown
Fix Version: 9.0.0.2
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 9
Component/s: Userspace

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.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-9912

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