Security Advisory

CVE-2013-7445

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-10-16 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 18:09:16
Assigner certcc
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.x mishandles requests for Graphics Execution Manager (GEM) objects, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an application that processes graphics data, as demonstrated by JavaScript code that creates many CANVAS elements for rendering by Chrome or Firefox.