What is CVE-2017-5993?

CVE-2017-5993 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Virglrenderer Project, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-03-15.

How severe is CVE-2017-5993?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Virglrenderer Project

CVE-2017-5993

Memory leak in the vrend_renderer_init_blit_ctx function in vrend_blitter.c in virglrenderer before 0.6.0 allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via a large number of VIRGL_CCMD_BLIT commands.

Published 2017-03-15 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (30.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-28.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 30th percentile — 30.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Virglrenderer Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-06 (vendor-advisory)
lists.freedesktop.org/archives/virglrenderer-devel/2017-February/000145.html (mailing-list, Patch, Release Notes)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/15/7 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/96275 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Issue Tracking)
cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer/commit/ (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-5993?: CVE-2017-5993 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Virglrenderer Project, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-03-15.
How severe is CVE-2017-5993?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.