FKIE_CVE-2007-6429
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-01-18 23:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:48
Severity
Summary
Multiple integer overflows in X.Org Xserver before 1.4.1 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a GetVisualInfo request containing a 32-bit value that is improperly used to calculate an amount of memory for allocation by the EVI extension, or (2) a request containing values related to pixmap size that are improperly used in management of shared memory by the MIT-SHM extension.
References
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"url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3000"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/ijhifoeblist?mode=7\u0026heading=AIX61\u0026path=/200802/SECURITY/20080227/datafile112539\u0026label=AIX%20X%20server%20multiple%20vulnerabilities"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39763"
},
{
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"url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39764"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2010"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11045"
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"url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/571-1/"
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"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
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},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
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],
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"value": "CWE-189"
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}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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