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CVE-2017-5994

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 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-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the vrend_create_vertex_elements_state function in vrend_renderer.c in virglrenderer before 0.6.0 allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and crash) via the num_elements parameter.

Affected products

• Virglrenderer Project Virglrenderer: through 0.5.0

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/15/8
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96276
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422452
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer/commit/?id=114688c526fe45f341d75ccd1d85473c3b08f7a7
• 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/2017/02/15/8
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96276
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422452
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer/commit/?id=114688c526fe45f341d75ccd1d85473c3b08f7a7
• https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/virglrenderer-devel/2017-February/000145.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-06

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