CVE-2016-7994: Opensuse Leap

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Opensuse Leap: version 42.2 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.7.1

Published 2016-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.