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CVE-2006-1526 Details

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.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-May/015136.html	CVE	Patch
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6642	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/19900	CVE	PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19915	CVE	PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19916	CVE	PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19921	CVE	PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19943	CVE	PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19951	CVE	PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19956	CVE	PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19983	CVE
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016018	CVE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26200	CVE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9929	CVE
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102339-1	CVE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/280-1/	CVE
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-02.xml	CVE	PatchVendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/633257	CVE	US Government Resource
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:081	CVE
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_03.html	CVE	PatchVendor Advisory
http://www.openbsd.org/errata38.html#xorg	CVE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0451.html	CVE	PatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436327/100/0/threaded	CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17795	CVE
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0024	CVE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1617	CVE
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-May/015136.html	[email protected]	Patch
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6642	[email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/19900	[email protected]	PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19915	[email protected]	PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19916	[email protected]	PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19921	[email protected]	PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19943	[email protected]	PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19951	[email protected]	PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19956	[email protected]	PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19983	[email protected]
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016018	[email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26200	[email protected]
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9929	[email protected]
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102339-1	[email protected]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/280-1/	[email protected]
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-02.xml	[email protected]	PatchVendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/633257	[email protected]	US Government Resource
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:081	[email protected]
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_03.html	[email protected]	PatchVendor Advisory
http://www.openbsd.org/errata38.html#xorg	[email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0451.html	[email protected]	PatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436327/100/0/threaded	[email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17795	[email protected]
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0024	[email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1617	[email protected]

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
NVD-CWE-Other	Weakness Not in a Standard CWE Category	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
x.org x11r6	6.7.0 6.8 6.8.1 6.9
CPE cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x11r6:6.7.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x11r6:6.8:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x11r6:6.8.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:x.org:x11r6:6.9:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

9 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 16, 2026		[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 18, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 3, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 11, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 20, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
May 3, 2006	Initial Analysis	[email protected]