vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-7949: libxrender -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 18, 2016
Added
Mar 31, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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

debian-upgrade-libxrender
Title
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