What is CVE-2017-6386?

CVE-2017-6386 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-2017-6386?

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

Vulnerability in Virglrenderer Project

CVE-2017-6386

Memory leak in the vrend_create_vertex_elements_state function in vrend_renderer.c in virglrenderer allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via a large number of VIRGL_OBJECT_VERTEX_ELEMENTS commands.

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

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (30.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-28.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 31st percentile — 30.7% 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

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/01/7 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-06 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
cgit.freedesktop.org/virglrenderer/commit/ (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/96506 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6386?: CVE-2017-6386 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-2017-6386?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.