CVE-2016-7949 (GCVE-0-2016-7949)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-12-13 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:13
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Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-10-04 00:00
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}



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