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CVE-2017-5993
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…
Medium6.5EPSS 0.39%
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 67% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
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References (6)
- GLSA-201707-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- [virglrenderer-devel] 20170210 [ANNOUNCE] virglrenderer 0.6.0 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170215 CVE-2017-5993 Virglrenderer: host memory leakage when initialising blitter context (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 96275 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422438 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer/commit/?id=6eb13f7a2dcf391ec9e19b4c2a79e68305f63c22 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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