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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2437

Original release date:05/02/2007

Last revised:03/08/2011

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

The X render (Xrender) extension in X.org X Window System 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2, with Xserver 1.3.0 and earlier, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via crafted values to the (1) XRenderCompositeTrapezoids and (2) XRenderAddTraps functions, which trigger a divide-by-zero error.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:5.5 (MEDIUM) (AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.9

Exploitability Subscore: 5.1

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Local network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (05/25/2007)

Red Hat does not consider a user assisted client crash such as this to be a security flaw.

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External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1017984

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017984

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0027.jsp

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0027.jsp

External Source: XF

Name: xorg-xrender-dos(33976)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/33976

External Source: VUPEN