CVE-2016-5407

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119 CWE-125

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93368Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036945Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXv/commit/?id=d9da580b46a28ab497de2e94fdc7b9ff953dab17Issue Tracking, Patch
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/
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.htmlVendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93368Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036945Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXv/commit/?id=d9da580b46a28ab497de2e94fdc7b9ff953dab17Issue Tracking, Patch
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/
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.htmlVendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03

Timeline

Published: Dec 13, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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