CVE-2016-7994

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

0.39% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 33.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

6.0 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2016-12-10 00:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 02:13Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-09-09

Assigning CNA

redhat

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-772Missing Release of Resource after Effective LifetimeBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

af9171e6330b64bde00bda540c5b79bc0a47acbea3d9e37ad777a46293e7221d

• www.securityfocus.com93453http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93453vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201611-11https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-11vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161007 CVE request Qemu virtio-gpu: memory leak in virtio_gpu_resource_create_2dhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/07/2mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:3237http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00140.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• lists.gnu.org[qemu-devel] 20160919 Re: [PATCH] virtio-gpu: fix memory leak in virtio_gpu_resource_create_2dhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg04083.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161008 Re: CVE request Qemu virtio-gpu: memory leak in virtio_gpu_resource_create_2dhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/08/3mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST