Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-5994
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:48 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2017-5994
Complete source record
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"method": "structured",
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"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-06",
"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422452",
"https://cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer/commit/?id=114688c526fe45f341d75ccd1d85473c3b08f7a7",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 439138,
"published_at": "2017-03-15T14:59:00.65+00:00"
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