Improper Input Validation

Affecting libxrender package, versions *

Overview

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

• Debian Security Tracker
• Fedora Security Update
• Fedora Security Update
• Gentoo Security Advisory
• OSS security Advisory
• OSS security Advisory
• Security Focus
• Security Tracker
• Ubuntu CVE Tracker
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXrender/commit/?id=9362c7ddd1af3b168953d0737877bc52d79c94f4
• https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.html