CVE-2016-7949

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the (1) XvQueryAdaptors and (2) XvQueryEncodings functions in X.org libXrender before 0.9.10 allow remote X servers to trigger out-of-bounds write operations via vectors involving length fields.

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-20 CWE-787

Affected software

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

References

Timeline

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

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