CVE-2017-6210

MEDIUM

Virglrenderer < 0.5.0 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Title source: rule

Description

The vrend_decode_reset function in vrend_decode.c in virglrenderer before 0.6.0 allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash) by destroying context 0 (zero).

References (6)

[Mailing List, Patch] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/23/21

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96439

[Issue Tracking, Patch] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1426170

[Patch] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer/commit/?id=0a5dff15912207b83018485f83e067474e818bab

[Patch] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/virglrenderer-devel/2017-February/000145.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-06

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0007

EPSS Percentile 20.2%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-476

Status published

Affected Products (2)

virglrenderer_project/virglrenderer < 0.5.0

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Mar 15, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026