Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-5407: libxv Insufficient validation of server responses results in out-of bounds accesses
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
12/13/2016
07/25/2018
09/20/2017
10/30/2017
Description
The (1) XvQueryAdaptors and (2) XvQueryEncodings functions in X.org libXv before 1.0.11 allow remote X servers to trigger out-of-bounds memory access operations via vectors involving length specifications in received data.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-libxv
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