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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-7949: 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

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.

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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