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CVE-2016-7953

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-12-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer underflow in X.org libXvMC before 1.0.10 allows remote X servers to have unspecified impact via an empty string.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 24, 25
• X.Org Libxvmc: through 1.0.9

References

• 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/93371
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036945
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXvMC/commit/?id=2cd95e7da8367cccdcdd5c9b160012d1dec5cbdb
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DLZ3CBE3LKTSHIQYM6RKZYJ5PJ5IGTYG/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M4SI52ZOHOK6524DI2TOW4DX6HPKNFNB/
• https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03
• 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/93371

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