Vulnerability CVE-2016-5407
Published: 2016-12-13   Modified: 2016-12-14

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
X.org -> Libxv 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 

 References:
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/93368
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036945
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXv/commit/?id=d9da580b46a28ab497de2e94fdc7b9ff953dab17
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3IA7BLB4C3JOYVU6UASGUJQJKUF6TO7E/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AE2VJOFA3EZA566RERQB54TFY56FROZR/
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03
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