UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5407

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5407

    Published: 13 Dec 2016Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-5407
    Aliases:
    USN-5449-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5407, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/4, https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5449-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5407

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libxv

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libxv@2:1.0.10-1ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2:1.0.10-1ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm1

    Affected versions

    2:1.0.10-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High