CVE-2016-7994

medium

Published 2016-12-10 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

6.0

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

60%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
42.2	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-1`
sid	Fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-1`
forky	Fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:2.8+dfsg-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
qemu	qemu	`{"endIncluding":"2.7.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-772

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.