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CVE-2016-7950

Date: December 13, 2016

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

9.8

Related Resources (13)

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7950

Url: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.html

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZHUT5YOSWVMBJNWZGUQNZRBFIZKRM4A6/

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/4

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7950

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93369

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/2

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7950

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03

Url: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXrender/commit/?id=8fad00b0b647ee662ce4737ca15be033b7a21714

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036945

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7WCKZFMZ76APAVMIRCUKKHEB4GAS7ZUP/

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-7950

Severity Score

9.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	9.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.5
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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