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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-7994: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Dec 10, 2016

Added

Aug 22, 2024

Modified

Jun 18, 2026

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-qemu

References

CVE-2016-7994
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-7994
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-7994
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-8842
CWE-772
EUVD-EUVD-2016-8842

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