FKIE_CVE-2017-16612

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-12-01 17:29 - Updated: 2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
libXcursor before 1.1.15 has various integer overflows that could lead to heap buffer overflows when processing malicious cursors, e.g., with programs like GIMP. It is also possible that an attack vector exists against the related code in cursor/xcursor.c in Wayland through 1.14.0.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=156Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/28/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3501-1Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1065386Issue Tracking, Tool Signature, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/commit/?id=5d201df72f3d4f4cb8b8f75f980169b03507da38
cve@mitre.orghttps://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXcursor/commit/?id=4794b5dd34688158fb51a2943032569d3780c4b8Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00002.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-November/035979.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-xorg-announce&m=151188036018262&w=2Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-04
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3622-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4059Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=156Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/28/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3501-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1065386Issue Tracking, Tool Signature, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/commit/?id=5d201df72f3d4f4cb8b8f75f980169b03507da38
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXcursor/commit/?id=4794b5dd34688158fb51a2943032569d3780c4b8Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00002.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-November/035979.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-xorg-announce&m=151188036018262&w=2Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-04
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3622-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4059Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
debian debian_linux 8.0
debian debian_linux 9.0
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 17.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 17.10
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