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CVE-2016-7994
medium
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.
References
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg04083.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93453
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/08/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/07/2
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html