9.8

CVE-2016-7953: fedoraproject fedora

CVSS: 9.8v3.0CriticalModified
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2016-7953UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7953DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7953
Published 13-12-2016Last modified 06-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-7953 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 3.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.8/10
010
Critical · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
3.45%
0%100%
Low · +0.14 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 3

Timeline

  1. 13-12-2016
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Buffer underflow in X.org libXvMC before 1.0.10 allows remote X servers to have unspecified impact via an empty string.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

3.45%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

89%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.14 pp

From 3.32% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
3.45%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Alpine1 product
  • libxvmc< 1.0.9-r1
Debian1 product
  • libxvmc< 2:1.0.10-1 | < 2:1.0.7-1+deb7u3
Fedoraproject1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • libxvmcAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 2:1.0.10-1
X.org1 product

5 vendors · 5 products

References

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