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CVE-2016-10163

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Memory leak in the vrend_renderer_context_create_internal function in vrend_decode.c in virglrenderer before 0.6.0 allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) by repeatedly creating a decode context.

Affected products

• Virglrenderer Project Virglrenderer: through 0.5.0

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/25/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95784
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer/commit/?id=747a293ff6055203e529f083896b823e22523fe7
• https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/virglrenderer-devel/2017-February/000145.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-06
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/25/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95784
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer/commit/?id=747a293ff6055203e529f083896b823e22523fe7
• https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/virglrenderer-devel/2017-February/000145.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-06

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