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.
Published: 2006-05-02
Score: 2.1 Low
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-1530 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-280-1 X.org server vulnerability
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Redhat Enterprise Linux
X.org X11r6
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T17:12:22.400Z

Reserved: 2006-03-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-1526

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-05-02T21:06:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2006-1526

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2006-05-02T14:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-1526 - Bugzilla

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