Bug 1381872 (CVE-2016-7947) - CVE-2016-7947 libXrandr: Insufficient validation of server responses result in Integer overflows
Summary: CVE-2016-7947 libXrandr: Insufficient validation of server responses result i...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-7947
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1381874
Blocks: 1381939
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Reported: 2016-10-05 08:54 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:14 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libXrandr 1.5.1
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:59:32 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-10-05 08:54:53 UTC 
It was found that when receiving a response from the server protocol data is not validated sufficiently. This results in integer overflows.

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 08:56:50 UTC 
Created libXrandr tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1381874]
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