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CVE-2016-7949

libXrender: Insufficient validation of server responses results in overflow of previously reserved memory

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · September 25, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVSS 2.0 · 5.4
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE not specified