CVE-2017-5994

MEDIUM 5.5CVE-2017-5994 · Published 15/03/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-5994 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting virglrenderer (virglrenderer project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.45%, higher than 39.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
virglrenderer virglrenderer_project	`≤ 0.5.0`	No fix yet

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the vrend_create_vertex_elements_state function in vrend_renderer.c in virglrenderer before 0.6.0 allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and crash) via the num_elements parameter.

References

openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/15/8 · Mailing List
securityfocus.com/bid/96276 · Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer/commit · Patch
lists.freedesktop.org/archives/virglrenderer-devel/2017-February/000145.html · Patch
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-06

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

virglrenderer

virglrenderer_project

≤ 0.5.0

No fix yet

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