CVE-2006-1526 Information

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.

Reference

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-May/015136.html http://secunia.com/advisories/19900 http://secunia.com/advisories/19915 http://secunia.com/advisories/19916 http://secunia.com/advisories/19921 http://secunia.com/advisories/19943 http://secunia.com/advisories/19951 http://secunia.com/advisories/19956 http://secunia.com/advisories/19983 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016018 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102339-1 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-02.xml http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/633257 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:081 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_03.html http://www.openbsd.org/errata38.htmlxorg http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0451.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436327/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17795 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0024 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1617 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6642 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26200 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9929 https://usn.ubuntu.com/280-1/