CVE-2017-10810

high

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.

References

Advisories

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/6/668

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/385aee965b4e4c36551c362a334378d2985b722a

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99433

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3927

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=385aee965b4e4c36551c362a334378d2985b722a

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-07-04

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H