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CVE-2017-10810 json

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 a…

published 9y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2017-2454

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.1%
EPSS 4.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • linux linux_kernel 4.4.77, 4.9.37, 4.11.10
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.11.11-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-10810

  • linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-89.112
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1028.37
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1024.24
  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.10.0-32.36~16.04.1
  • linux-raspi2 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1067.75
  • linux-lts-xenial Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4.4.0-89.112~14.04.1
  • linux-snapdragon Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1069.74

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10810

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • drm SLED 12 SP3, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP3 4.9.33-4.11.1
  • kernel-rt SLE Real Time 12 SP2 4.4.88-18.1
  • kernel-syms-rt SLE Real Time 12 SP2 4.4.88-18.1
  • kernel-rt_debug SLE Real Time 12 SP2 4.4.88-18.1
  • kernel-source-rt SLE Real Time 12 SP2 4.4.88-18.1
  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2 +1 more 4.4.90-92.45.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2 +1 more 4.4.90-92.45.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2 +3 more 4.4.90-92.45.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0509-1SUSE-SU-2017:2956-1SUSE-SU-2017:2869-1SUSE-SU-2017:2286-1

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red hat product security vex CVE-2017-10810 updated cvss 4.1

Kernel: virtio-gpu: memory leakage while creating gpu object

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
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