vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-7950: libxrender insufficient validation of data from the X server can cause out of boundary memory writes

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 13, 2016
Added
Sep 20, 2017
Modified
Nov 8, 2023

Description

The XRenderQueryFilters function in X.org libXrender before 0.9.10 allows remote X servers to trigger out-of-bounds write operations via vectors involving filter name lengths.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-libxrender
Title
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