CVE-2016-5407

critical
Published 2016-12-13 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
9.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5407

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5407.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXv/commit/?id=d9da580b46a28ab497de2e94fdc7b9ff953dab17

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2:1.0.11-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2:1.0.11-1
debian debianforkyfixed2:1.0.11-1
debian debiansidfixed2:1.0.11-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2:1.0.11-1
fedora fedora24affected
fedora fedora25affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
x.orglibxv{"endIncluding":"1.0.10"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119 CWE-125

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.