CVE-2016-10163 Denial of service in n/a
Local guest OS users can cause host memory exhaustion and denial of service by repeatedly creating decode contexts in virglrenderer.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2016-10163?
CVE-2016-10163 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 15 Mar 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Memory leak in the vrend_renderer_context_create_internal function in vrend_decode.c in virglrenderer before 0.6.0 allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) by repeatedly creating a decode context.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-10163?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Virglrenderer Project Virglrenderer.
How do I fix CVE-2016-10163?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2016-10163 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-10163 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10163, GHSA-rrpr-p3gr-w324.