VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2016-7949
CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability3.72%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2016-12-13
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
Weakness classification
- CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
- CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write