CVE-2017-10810

high
Published 2017-07-04 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Memory leak in the virtio_gpu_object_create function in drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_object.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.8 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering object-initialization failures.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.11.11-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.11.11-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.11.11-1
debian debiansidfixed4.11.11-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.11.11-1
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected
linux linux-kernelaffected4.4.77

References

CWEs

CWE-772

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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