CVE-2016-5407 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02123.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Fedoraproject	Fedora
X.org	Libxv

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:x.org:libxv:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:25:::::::*

No data.

No data.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93368
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036945
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXv/commit/?id=d9da580b46a28ab497de2e94fdc7b9ff953dab17
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3IA7BLB4C3JOYVU6UASGUJQJKUF6TO7E/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AE2VJOFA3EZA566RERQB54TFY56FROZR/
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5407
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5407

History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.02752}`	epss `{'score': 0.02123}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2016-12-13T20:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:00:59.993Z

Reserved: 2016-06-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-5407

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-12-13T20:59:01.923

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-5407

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-09-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-5407 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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