Buffer overflow in X.org X11

CVE-2014-8100

The Render extension in XFree86 4.0.1, 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) ProcRenderQueryVersion, (2) SProcRenderQueryVersion, (3) SProcRenderQueryPictFormats, (4) SProcRenderQueryPictIndexValues, (5) SProcRenderCreatePicture, (6) SProcRenderChangePicture, (7) SProcRenderSetPictureClipRectangles, (8) SProcRenderFreePicture, (9) SProcRenderComposite, (10) SProcRenderScale, (11) SProcRenderCreateGlyphSet, (12) SProcRenderReferenceGlyphSet, (13) SProcRenderFreeGlyphSet, (14) SProcRenderFreeGlyphs, or (15) SProcRenderCompositeGlyphs function.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.044 (91.3th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 91.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2014-8100: held from 0.044 to 0.044.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.044 · newest: 0.044 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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