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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2014-8099

Change History

CVE Modified by Red Hat, Inc. 2/12/2023 7:42:39 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Changed Description 
Multiple out-of-bounds access flaws were found in the way the X.Org server calculated memory requirements for certain requests. A malicious, authenticated client could use either of these flaws to crash the X.Org server.
 
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.
Removed CVSS V2 
Red Hat, Inc. (AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
 

								
								
					

					

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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1982 [No Types Assigned]

								
							
							
								
							
						
								
							
								

								
								
					

					

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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1983 [No Types Assigned]

								
							
							
								
							
						
								
							
								

								
								
					

					

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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8099 [No Types Assigned]

								
							
							
								
							
						
								
							
								

								
								
					

					

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168710 [No Types Assigned]