Memory Leak Affecting freedesktop/virglrenderer package, versions [,0.8.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEDESKTOPVIRGLRENDERER-2371768
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-6386  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freedesktop/virglrenderer to version 0.8.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Leak. Memory leak in the vrend_create_vertex_elements_state function in vrend_renderer.c in virglrenderer allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via a large number of VIRGL_OBJECT_VERTEX_ELEMENTS commands.

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