CVE-2017-5993

medium

Description

Memory leak in the vrend_renderer_init_blit_ctx function in vrend_blitter.c in virglrenderer before 0.6.0 allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via a large number of VIRGL_CCMD_BLIT commands.

References

Advisories
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https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-06

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96275

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/virglrenderer-devel/2017-February/000145.html

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer/commit/?id=6eb13f7a2dcf391ec9e19b4c2a79e68305f63c22

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422438

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/15/7

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-03-15

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H