Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libXrender package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.37% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBXRENDER-1355805
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed25 Sept 2016

Introduced: 25 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-7950  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 libXrender.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libXrender package and not the libXrender package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The XRenderQueryFilters function in X.org libXrender before 0.9.10 allows remote X servers to trigger out-of-bounds write operations via vectors involving filter name lengths.