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CVE-2006-1526

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 2006-05-02 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

X.Org X11R6

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References