Vulnerability CVE-2017-10810
Published: 2017-07-04   Modified: 2017-07-05

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.

Type:

CWE-772

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel 

 References:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=385aee965b4e4c36551c362a334378d2985b722a
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3927
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99433
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/385aee965b4e4c36551c362a334378d2985b722a
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/6/668
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