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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-7948: libxrandr Integer overflows and various data mishandlings

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-7948: libxrandr Integer overflows and various data mishandlings

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/13/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/20/2017
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

X.org libXrandr before 1.5.1 allows remote X servers to trigger out-of-bounds write operations by leveraging mishandling of reply data.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libxrandr

References

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