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Missing Initialization of Resource

CVE-2022-0175

Severity Medium
Score 5.5/10

Summary

A flaw was found in the VirGL virtual OpenGL renderer (virglrenderer). The virgl did not properly initialize memory when allocating a host-backed memory resource. A malicious guest could use this flaw to mmap from the guest kernel and read this uninitialized memory from the host, possibly leading to information disclosure.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-909 - Missing Initialization of Resource

The software does not initialize a critical resource.

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published