CVE-2016-10163

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Published 2017-03-15 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
4.9
VIR risk
6.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10163

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/virglrenderer-devel/2017-February/000145.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer/commit/?id=747a293ff6055203e529f083896b823e22523fe7

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/25/4

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/2

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10163.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
arch archfixed0.6.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed0.6.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.6.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed0.6.0-1
debian debiansidfixed0.6.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.6.0-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
virglrenderer_projectvirglrenderer{"endIncluding":"0.5.0"}

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.