CVE-2016-7949

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - security@opentext.com

Published

2016-12-13

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-20, CWE-787

Affected products

• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Libxrender (X.org)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93366
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036945
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXrender/commit/?id=9362c7ddd1af3b168953d0737877bc52d79c94f4
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7WCKZFMZ76APAVMIRCUKKH…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZHUT5YOSWVMBJNWZGUQNZR…
• https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03