CVE-2016-5407
CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · Memory corruption
9.8CVSS CRITICAL
Summary
The (1) XvQueryAdaptors and (2) XvQueryEncodings functions in X.org libXv before 1.0.11 allow remote X servers to trigger out-of-bounds memory access operations via vectors involving length specifications in received data.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)5%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXv/commit/?id=d9da580b46a28ab497de2e94fdc7b9ff953dab17 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXv/commit/?id=d9da580b46a28ab497de2e94fdc7b9ff953dab17Patch
- https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/2Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/4Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93368Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036945Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3IA7BLB4C3JOYVU6UASGUJQJKUF6TO7E/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AE2VJOFA3EZA566RERQB54TFY56FROZR/