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CVE-2016-10163
Memory leak in the vrend_renderer_context_create_internal function in vrend_decode.c in virglrenderer before 0.6.0 allows local guest OS…
Medium6.5EPSS 0.41%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 49 days later
· 49 days later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.41% · top 65% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- GLSA-201707-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- [virglrenderer-devel] 20170210 [ANNOUNCE] virglrenderer 0.6.0 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170124 CVE request Virglrenderer: host memory leakage when creating decode context (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer/commit/?id=747a293ff6055203e529f083896b823e22523fe7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170125 Re: CVE request Virglrenderer: host memory leakage when creating decode context (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 95784 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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