CVE-2019-18388

Publication date 23 December 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A NULL pointer dereference in vrend_renderer.c in virglrenderer through 0.8.0 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service via malformed commands.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
virglrenderer	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

intrusive backport to bionic and eoan Nothing in bionic actually uses this package, so we will not be releasing a fix for it. Marking as ignored.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
virglrenderer	Upstream: 0d9a2c8

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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