Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-5957

Title: Virglrenderer Project Virglrenderer RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-5957.

CWE Category CWE-787

Published Date Mar 14, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.5 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.08%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-5957: Stack-based buffer overflow in the vrend_decode_set_framebuffer_state function in vrend_decode.c in virglrenderer before 926b9b3460a48f6454d8bbe9e44313d86a65447f, as used in Quick Emulator (QEMU), allows a local guest users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via the "nr_cbufs" argument.

Impacted Vendors

virglrenderer_project 1

xen 1

qemu 1

freedesktop 1

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/13/3 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96215 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421126 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer/commit/?id=926b9b3460a48f6454d8bbe9e44313d86a65447f https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-06 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/13/3 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96215 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421126 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer/commit/?id=926b9b3460a48f6454d8bbe9e44313d86a65447f https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-06

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.5

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns