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CVE-2016-7943 Details

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.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:9.8 CRITICALVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=8c29f1607a31dac0911e45a0dd3d74173822b3c9 CVE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GMCVDXMFPXR7QGMKDG22WPPJCXH2X3L7/ CVE
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.html CVE
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03 CVE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-1/ CVE

see all 20 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-787Out-of-bounds Write[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
fedoraproject fedora
25

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
x.org libx11
<= 1.6.3

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:x.org:libx11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

10 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-7943
NVD Published Date:
Dec 13, 2016
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2016-7943 Details - Not Deferred