CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-7949

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2016-12-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-12-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-787

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the (1) XvQueryAdaptors and (2) XvQueryEncodings functions in X.org libXrender before 0.9.10 allow remote X servers to trigger out-of-bounds write operations via vectors involving length fields.

Affected configurations

• x.org libxrender (<= 0.9.9) • fedoraproject fedora 24 • fedoraproject fedora 25

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References