CVE-2016-5407
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 2.1%libxv - security update
Published: 12/13/2016Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The (1) XvQueryAdaptors and (2) XvQueryEncodings functions in X.org libXv before 1.0.11 allow remote X servers to trigger out-of-bounds memory access operations via vectors involving length specifications in received data.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/libxvfrom 0, < 1.0.10-r1
- Debian/libxvfrom 0, < 2:1.0.11-1
- Debian/libxvfrom 0, < 2:1.0.7-1+deb7u2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |