CVE-2016-7994

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

6.0

MODERATE

Vector

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

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.15

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Multiple vulnerabilities affected in QEMU 2.5.0	Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in QEMU 2.5.0	Windows

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234