CVE-2016-7943

N/A

Description

The XListFonts function in X.org libX11 before 1.6.4 might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via vectors involving length fields, which trigger out-of-bounds write operations.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published12/13/2016

Last Modified5/6/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

fedoraproject:fedorax.org:libx11

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-787

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/2(security@opentext.com)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/4(security@opentext.com)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93362(security@opentext.com)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036945(security@opentext.com)

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=8c29f1607a31dac0911e45a0dd3d74173822b3c9(security@opentext.com)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GMCVDXMFPXR7QGMKDG22WPPJCXH2X3L7/(security@opentext.com)

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.html(security@opentext.com)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03(security@opentext.com)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-1/(security@opentext.com)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-2/(security@opentext.com)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/4(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93362(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036945(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=8c29f1607a31dac0911e45a0dd3d74173822b3c9(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GMCVDXMFPXR7QGMKDG22WPPJCXH2X3L7/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-1/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-2/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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