MEDIUM 5.5 Microsoft

CVE-2022-0175

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.

Microsoft Security Update 2022-Aug: 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.

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Published: 2022-08-09 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-09-03
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5 was published on 2022-08-09 via Microsoft. Affected: azl3 virglrenderer 0.9.1-3 on Azure Linux 3.0.
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