UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7949

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7949
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7949.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7949
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Published
2016-12-13T20:59:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:45:55Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / libxrender

Package

Name
libxrender
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libxrender@1:0.9.8-1build0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:0.*

1:0.9.8-1
1:0.9.8-1build0.14.04.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1:0.9.8-1build0.14.04.1",
            "binary_name": "libxrender-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:0.9.8-1build0.14.04.1",
            "binary_name": "libxrender1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7949.json"

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / libxrender

Package

Name
libxrender
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libxrender@1:0.9.9-0ubuntu1+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:0.9.9-0ubuntu1+esm1

Affected versions

1:0.*

1:0.9.9-0ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1:0.9.9-0ubuntu1+esm1",
            "binary_name": "libxrender-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:0.9.9-0ubuntu1+esm1",
            "binary_name": "libxrender1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7949.json"