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Ubuntu: USN-5436-1 (CVE-2016-7949): libXrender vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5436-1 (CVE-2016-7949): libXrender vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/13/2016
Created
05/26/2022
Added
05/24/2022
Modified
11/15/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libxrender1

References

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