CVE-2016-10214 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 6.5 Published 20 Mar 2017 Updated 6 Aug 2024

Local guest OS users can cause a denial of service via memory consumption in virglrenderer by sending numerous VIRTIO_GPU commands.

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-2016-10214?

CVE-2016-10214 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 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 virgl_resource_attach_backing function in virglrenderer before 0.6.0 allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_RESOURCE_ATTACH_BACKING commands.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-10214?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Virglrenderer Project Virglrenderer.

How do I fix CVE-2016-10214?

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-2016-10214 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-10214 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as CVE-2016-10373, DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10214, GHSA-chcj-vq6f-3pfm.