CVE-2016-7948 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-7948?

CVE-2016-7948 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 13 Dec 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

X.org libXrandr before 1.5.1 allows remote X servers to trigger out-of-bounds write operations by leveraging mishandling of reply data.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-7948?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, X.org Libxrandr.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7948?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-7948 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7948 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2016-7948, DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7948, GHSA-8ppr-4hxc-fw99, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7948.