CVE-2016-7953

Publication date 13 December 2016

Last updated 18 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

Buffer underflow in X.org libXvMC before 1.0.10 allows remote X servers to have unspecified impact via an empty string.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libxvmc	25.10 questing	Fixed 2:1.0.10-1
	25.04 plucky	Fixed 2:1.0.10-1
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 2:1.0.10-1
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 2:1.0.10-1
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 2:1.0.10-1
	23.04 lunar	Fixed 2:1.0.10-1
	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 2:1.0.10-1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2:1.0.10-1
	21.10 impish	Fixed 2:1.0.10-1
	21.04 hirsute	Fixed 2:1.0.10-1
	20.10 groovy	Fixed 2:1.0.10-1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2:1.0.10-1
	19.10 eoan	Fixed 2:1.0.10-1
	19.04 disco	Fixed 2:1.0.10-1
	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 2:1.0.10-1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2:1.0.10-1
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libxvmc	Upstream: ?id=2cd

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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