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Bug 1381872 - (CVE-2016-7947) CVE-2016-7947 libXrandr: Insufficient validation of server responses result in Integer overflows
CVE-2016-7947 libXrandr: Insufficient validation of server responses result i...
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20160925,repor...
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Depends On: 1381874
Blocks: 1381939
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Reported: 2016-10-05 04:54 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2017-03-09 19:40 EST (History)
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Fixed In Version: libXrandr 1.5.1
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-10-05 04:54:53 EDT
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 04:56:50 EDT
Created libXrandr tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1381874]

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