Improper Input Validation Affecting libxrender package, versions [0,0.9.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.72% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBXRENDER-2371858
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Dec 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-7949  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (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 Improper Input Validation. 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.

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CVSS Base Scores

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