CVE-2016-7994 in Ubuntu

CVE-2016-7994

Priority

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://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7994
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg04129.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3125-1

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840228

Notes

ratliff

Note from Debian: "Vulnerable code introduced in 2.4.0-rc0"

Package

Source: qemu (LP Ubuntu Debian)

Upstream:	needs-triage
Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr):	not-affected (code not present)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):	released (1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.6)

Patches:

Upstream:

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=cb3a0522b694cc5bb6424497b3f828ccd28fd1dd

Package

Source: qemu-kvm (LP Ubuntu Debian)

Upstream:	not-affected
Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr):	DNE
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):	DNE

More Information

Updated: 2019-12-05 18:46:25 UTC (commit dd38ff22974aae499eb50644b9d5a2817483cbdb)