PT-2016-6412 · X.Org Foundation+3 · Libxv+3

Tobias Stoeckmann · Published 2016-10-12 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-5407

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libXv versions prior to 1.0.11

Description The issue concerns the XvQueryAdaptors and XvQueryEncodings functions in libXv, which allow remote X servers to trigger out-of-bounds memory access operations. This can be achieved via vectors involving length specifications in received data.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.0.11, update to version 1.0.11 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-1821

CVE-2016-5407

DLA-667-1

MGASA-2018-0011

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10274-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2505-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2828-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3110-1

SUSE-SU-2016_2505-1

SUSE-SU-2016_2828-1

SUSE-SU-2016_3110-1

USN-5449-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Libxv

References · 71

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0011.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2016-5407 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2828-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5407 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5407 · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3IA7BLB4C3JOYVU6UASGUJQJKUF6TO7E · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0011 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5407 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5407 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2018-1821 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10274-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXv/commit/?id=d9da580b46a28ab497de2e94fdc7b9ff953dab17 · Patch
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5407 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5407 · Vendor Advisory