CVE-2016-7953

critical

Description

Buffer underflow in X.org libXvMC before 1.0.10 allows remote X servers to have unspecified impact via an empty string.

References

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

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

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M4SI52ZOHOK6524DI2TOW4DX6HPKNFNB/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DLZ3CBE3LKTSHIQYM6RKZYJ5PJ5IGTYG/

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXvMC/commit/?id=2cd95e7da8367cccdcdd5c9b160012d1dec5cbdb

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93371

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-12-13

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

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