Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 2, 2006· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2006-1526
CVE-2006-1526
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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References
25- lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-May/015136.htmlnvdPatch
- secunia.com/advisories/19900nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/19915nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/19916nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/19921nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/19943nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/19951nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/19956nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-02.xmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_03.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0451.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/633257nvdUS Government Resource
- secunia.com/advisories/19983nvd
- securitytracker.com/idnvd
- sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.donvd
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvd
- www.openbsd.org/errata38.htmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436327/100/0/threadednvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/17795nvd
- www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0024nvd
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1617nvd
- bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cginvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26200nvd
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9929nvd
- usn.ubuntu.com/280-1/nvd
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