CyberRota Analysis
This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2016-5407
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
4.53%
Original NVD Description
The (1) XvQueryAdaptors and (2) XvQueryEncodings functions in X.org libXv before 1.0.11 allow remote X servers to trigger out-of-bounds memory access operations via vectors involving length specifications in received data.