Bug 1381873 (CVE-2016-7948)

Summary: CVE-2016-7948 libXrandr: Insufficient validation of server responses result in various data mishandlings
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Bug Depends On: 1381874    
Bug Blocks: 1381939    

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-10-05 08:56:14 UTC
It was found that when receiving a response from the server protocol data is not validated sufficiently. This results in various data mishandlings.

Upstream patch:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXrandr/commit/?id=a0df3e1c7728205e5c7650b2e6dce684139254a6

External References:

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.html

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/17

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-10-05 08:56:55 UTC
Created libXrandr tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1381874]