vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-5407: X.Org: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 13, 2016
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

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.

Solutions

gentoo-linux-upgrade-x11-base-xorg-servergentoo-linux-upgrade-x11-libs-libicegentoo-linux-upgrade-x11-libs-libxdmcpgentoo-linux-upgrade-x11-libs-libxfixesgentoo-linux-upgrade-x11-libs-libxigentoo-linux-upgrade-x11-libs-libxrandrgentoo-linux-upgrade-x11-libs-libxrendergentoo-linux-upgrade-x11-libs-libxv
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