CVE-2016-9912: Qemu

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Quick Emulator (Qemu) built with the Virtio GPU Device emulator support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while destroying gpu resource object in 'virtio_gpu_resource_destroy'. A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak host memory bytes, resulting in DoS for a host.

Affected products

• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.8.1.1

Published 2016-12-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.