FKIE_CVE-2016-7948
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-12-13 20:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:53
Severity
Summary
X.org libXrandr before 1.5.1 allows remote X servers to trigger out-of-bounds write operations by leveraging mishandling of reply data.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| x.org | libxrandr | * | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 24 | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 25 |
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