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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-5407

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.

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31 Oct 2026, 09:43 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2016-5407

core-osv · Original source

Published 13 Dec 2016, 20:59 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2016-5407
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5407",
  "method": "structured",
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    "title": "CVE-2016-5407",
    "summary": "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.",
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    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
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      "affected": [
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          "versions": [
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            "XORG-7_1",
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            "lg3d-rel-0-6-2",
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            "XORG-6_8_99_8",
            "XORG-6_8_99_7",
            "XORG-6_8_99_6",
            "XORG-6_8_99_5",
            "XORG-6_8_99_4",
            "XORG-6_8_99_3",
            "XORG-6_8_99_2",
            "XORG-6_8_99_13",
            "XORG-6_8_99_12",
            "XORG-6_8_99_11",
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            "XORG-6_7_99_901",
            "XORG-6_7_99_2",
            "XORG-6_7_99_1",
            "XACE-SELINUX-MERGE",
            "xf86-4_4_99_1",
            "xf86-4_4_0",
            "xf86-4_3_99_903",
            "xf86-4_3_99_903_special",
            "xf86-4_3_99_902",
            "xf86-4_3_99_901",
            "xf86-012804-2330",
            "xf86-4_3_99_16",
            "xf86-4_3_0_1"
          ],
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:39.884228249Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03",
        "https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXv/commit/?id=d9da580b46a28ab497de2e94fdc7b9ff953dab17"
      ],
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                  }
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              }
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        ]
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    },
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        "value": "CVE-2016-5407",
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 379612,
  "published_at": "2016-12-13T20:59:01.923+00:00"
}