CVE-2016-7953 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Fedoraproject	Fedora
X.org	Libxvmc

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:25:::::::*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:x.org:libxvmc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93371
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036945
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXvMC/commit/?id=2cd95e7da8367cccdcdd5c9b160012d1dec5cbdb
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DLZ3CBE3LKTSHIQYM6RKZYJ5PJ5IGTYG/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M4SI52ZOHOK6524DI2TOW4DX6HPKNFNB/
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7953
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7953

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microfocus

Published: 2016-12-13T20:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:13:21.136Z

Reserved: 2016-09-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-7953

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-12-13T20:59:20.380

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-7953

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-09-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-7953 - Bugzilla

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