Vulnerabilities / CVE-2016-5407

critical

CVE-2016-5407

libXv: Insufficient validation of server responses results in out-of bounds accesses

Published Modified CWE 119, 125
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat5.0CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Ubuntu (low).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.2libxv1.0.10-r1
alpine 3.3libxv1.0.10-r2
debian 11libxv2:1.0.11-1
debian 12libxv2:1.0.11-1
debian 13libxv2:1.0.11-1
debian 14libxv2:1.0.11-1
debian 7libxv2:1.0.7-1+deb7u2
debian 8libxv2:1.0.10-1+deb8u1
echolibxv2:1.0.11-1
Red HatlibXv, libXv-develno fix listed
ubuntu 16.04-ESMlibxv2:1.0.10-1ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm1
ubuntu 18.04libxv2:1.0.11-1
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SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.2libxv1.0.10-r1
alpine 3.3libxv1.0.10-r2
debian 11libxv2:1.0.11-1
debian 12libxv2:1.0.11-1
debian 13libxv2:1.0.11-1
debian 14libxv2:1.0.11-1
debian 7libxv2:1.0.7-1+deb7u2
debian 8libxv2:1.0.10-1+deb8u1
echolibxv2:1.0.11-1
Red HatlibXvno fix listed
Red HatlibXv-develno fix listed
ubuntu 16.04-ESMlibxv2:1.0.10-1ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm1
ubuntu 18.04libxv2:1.0.11-1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMlibxv2:1.0.11-1
ubuntu 18.10libxv2:1.0.11-1
ubuntu 19.04libxv2:1.0.11-1
ubuntu 19.10libxv2:1.0.11-1
ubuntu 20.04libxv2:1.0.11-1
ubuntu 20.04-ESMlibxv2:1.0.11-1
ubuntu 20.10libxv2:1.0.11-1
ubuntu 21.04libxv2:1.0.11-1
ubuntu 21.10libxv2:1.0.11-1
ubuntu 22.04libxv2:1.0.11-1

References

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