PT-2017-7777

CVE-2016-10163

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Published

2017-03-15

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Updated

2017-07-11

Description by

CVSS 3.1
6.5
Medium
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions virglrenderer versions prior to 0.6.0
Description The issue is related to a memory leak in the vrend renderer context create internal function in vrend decode.c. This allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service by repeatedly creating a decode context, resulting in host memory consumption.
Recommendations For versions prior to 0.6.0, update to version 0.6.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the creation of decode contexts to minimize the risk of exploitation.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
ALT-PU-2017-1538
SUSE-SU-2017:0798-1
SUSE-SU-2017_0798-1
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