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CVE-2016-7994

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-7994 describes a memory leak vulnerability in the virtio_gpu_resource_create_2d function of QEMU, affecting products like openSUSE Leap and QEMU itself. This flaw allows a local guest OS administrator to trigger a denial of service by exhausting memory through a large number of VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_RESOURCE_CREATE_2D commands. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 6.0), it requires high privileges (PR:H) and has a high impact on availability (A:H) with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
42.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.0MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.5
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: qemu-kvm-rhev

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-7994Low

Qemu: virtio-gpu: memory leak in virtio_gpu_resource_create_2d

Sep 19, 2016

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.gnu.org / archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg04083.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201611-11
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/10/07/2
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/10/08/3
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/93453
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry