CVE-2014-8099

critical

Description

The XVideo extension in XFree86 4.0.0, X.Org X Window System (aka X11 or X) X11R6.7, and X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.16.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted length or index value to the (1) SProcXvQueryExtension, (2) SProcXvQueryAdaptors, (3) SProcXvQueryEncodings, (4) SProcXvGrabPort, (5) SProcXvUngrabPort, (6) SProcXvPutVideo, (7) SProcXvPutStill, (8) SProcXvGetVideo, (9) SProcXvGetStill, (10) SProcXvPutImage, (11) SProcXvShmPutImage, (12) SProcXvSelectVideoNotify, (13) SProcXvSelectPortNotify, (14) SProcXvStopVideo, (15) SProcXvSetPortAttribute, (16) SProcXvGetPortAttribute, (17) SProcXvQueryBestSize, (18) SProcXvQueryPortAttributes, (19) SProcXvQueryImageAttributes, or (20) SProcXvListImageFormats function.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-06

http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2014-12-09/

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71600

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:119

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3095

http://secunia.com/advisories/62292

http://secunia.com/advisories/61947

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0532.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-12-10

Updated: 2023-02-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical