CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-6429

9.3 HIGH Published 2008-01-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-01-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-189, CWE-362

Description

Multiple integer overflows in X.Org Xserver before 1.4.1 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a GetVisualInfo request containing a 32-bit value that is improperly used to calculate an amount of memory for allocation by the EVI extension, or (2) a request containing values related to pixmap size that are improperly used in management of shared memory by the MIT-SHM extension.

Affected configurations

• x.org evi • x.org mit-shm • x.org xserver (<= 1.4)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References