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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-1526: X.Org: Buffer overflow in XRender extension

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-1526: X.Org: Buffer overflow in XRender extension

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/02/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Buffer overflow in the X render (Xrender) extension in X.org X server 6.8.0 up to allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), as demonstrated by the (1) XRenderCompositeTriStrip and (2) XRenderCompositeTriFan requests in the rendertest from XCB xcb/xcb-demo, which leads to an incorrect memory allocation due to a typo in an expression that uses a "&" instead of a "*" operator. NOTE: the subject line of the original announcement used an incorrect CVE number for this issue.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-x11-base-xorg-x11

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