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CVE-2006-1526 Detail

Current 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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-May/015136.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://secunia.com/advisories/19900 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/19915 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/19916 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/19921 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/19943 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/19951 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/19956 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/19983 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016018 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102339-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-02.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/633257 CVE, Inc., Red Hat US Government Resource 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:081 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_03.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.openbsd.org/errata38.html#xorg CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0451.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436327/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17795 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0024 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1617 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6642 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26200 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9929 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://usn.ubuntu.com/280-1/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-1526
NVD Published Date:
05/02/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/02/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.