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The XVideo extension in XFree86 4.0.0, X.Org X Window...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 10, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

The XVideo extension in XFree86 4.0.0, X.Org X Window System (aka X11 or X) X11R6.7, and X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.16.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted length or index value to the (1) SProcXvQueryExtension, (2) SProcXvQueryAdaptors, (3) SProcXvQueryEncodings, (4) SProcXvGrabPort, (5) SProcXvUngrabPort, (6) SProcXvPutVideo, (7) SProcXvPutStill, (8) SProcXvGetVideo, (9) SProcXvGetStill, (10) SProcXvPutImage, (11) SProcXvShmPutImage, (12) SProcXvSelectVideoNotify, (13) SProcXvSelectPortNotify, (14) SProcXvStopVideo, (15) SProcXvSetPortAttribute, (16) SProcXvGetPortAttribute, (17) SProcXvQueryBestSize, (18) SProcXvQueryPortAttributes, (19) SProcXvQueryImageAttributes, or (20) SProcXvListImageFormats function.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 10, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Last updated Feb 10, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

1.566%
(88th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2014-8099

GHSA ID

GHSA-5grc-mxpq-pvhg

Source code

No known source code

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