CVE-2017-5993

Summary

CVECVE-2017-5993
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-03-15 14:59:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionMemory 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-772

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Virglrenderer Project Virglrenderer All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Virglrenderer CVE-2017-5993 Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
virglrenderer: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201707-06) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[virglrenderer-devel] [ANNOUNCE] virglrenderer 0.6.0 MLIST lists.freedesktop.org Patch, Release Notes
oss-security - CVE-2017-5993 Virglrenderer: host memory leakage when initialising blitter context MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch
1422438 – (CVE-2017-5993) CVE-2017-5993 Virglrenderer: host memory leakage when initialising blitter context CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Patch
virglrenderer - VirGL virtual OpenGL renderer (mirrored from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/virgl/virglrenderer) CONFIRM cgit.freedesktop.org Patch
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710490 Gentoo Linux virglrenderer Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201707-06)
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