UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7949

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7949

    Published: 13 Dec 2016Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-7949
    Aliases:
    USN-5436-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7949, 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-5436-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7949

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libxrender

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libxrender@1:0.9.8-1build0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1:0.9.8-1
    1:0.9.8-1build0.14.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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