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LOW

security flaw

Published May 2, 2006

Description

Buffer overflow in the X render (Xrender) extension in X.org X server 6.8.0 up to allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), as demonstrated by the (1) XRenderCompositeTriStrip and (2) XRenderCompositeTriFan requests in the rendertest from XCB xcb/xcb-demo, which leads to an incorrect memory allocation due to a typo in an expression that uses a "&" instead of a "*" operator. NOTE: the subject line of the original announcement used an incorrect CVE number for this issue.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (29)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published May 2, 2006
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Mar 30, 2006
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date May 2, 2006