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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-7949: Vulnerability in X.Org

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-7949: Vulnerability in X.Org

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/13/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

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(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-library-libx11-1-6-2-0-175-3-15-0-3-1517
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-library-libxfixes-5-0-1-0-175-3-15-0-3-1517
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-library-libxrandr-1-4-2-0-175-3-15-0-3-1517
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-library-libxrender-0-9-8-0-175-3-15-0-3-1517
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-library-libxtst-1-2-2-0-175-3-15-0-3-1517
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-library-libxv-1-0-10-0-175-3-15-0-3-1517
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-x11-library-libxvmc-1-0-8-0-175-3-15-0-3-1517

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