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CVE-2017-5993

• 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-772

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.

Affected products

• Virglrenderer Project Virglrenderer: through 0.5.0

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/15/7
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96275
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422438
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer/commit/?id=6eb13f7a2dcf391ec9e19b4c2a79e68305f63c22
• 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/2017/02/15/7
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96275
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422438
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer/commit/?id=6eb13f7a2dcf391ec9e19b4c2a79e68305f63c22
• https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/virglrenderer-devel/2017-February/000145.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-06

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