Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libxrender package, versions [0,0.9.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.72% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBXRENDER-2371857
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Dec 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Dec 2016

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

How to fix?

Upgrade libxrender to version 0.9.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. 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.

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