Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-10163

Title: Virglrenderer Project Virglrenderer Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-10163.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Mar 15, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.06%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-10163: 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.

Impacted Vendors

freedesktop 1

virglrenderer_project 1

Reference Links

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

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.5

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.9

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns