CVE-2019-18391 Memory corruption in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

A heap-based buffer overflow in virglrenderer allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service via specific 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-2019-18391?

CVE-2019-18391 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 23 Dec 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A heap-based buffer overflow in the vrend_renderer_transfer_write_iov function in vrend_renderer.c in virglrenderer through 0.8.0 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service via VIRGL_CCMD_RESOURCE_INLINE_WRITE commands.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-18391?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Opensuse Leap, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Virglrenderer Project Virglrenderer.

How do I fix CVE-2019-18391?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2019-18391 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-18391 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2019-18391, DEBIAN-CVE-2019-18391, GHSA-r2v2-ffc3-pvxq, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-18391.

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