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CVSSv2

CVE-2016-7944

Published: 13/12/2016 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

Integer overflow in X.org libXfixes prior to 5.0.3 on 32-bit platforms might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via a length value of INT_MAX, which triggers the client to stop reading data and get out of sync.

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Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: libxfixes: CVE-2016-7944
Debian Bug report logs - #840442 libxfixes: CVE-2016-7944 Package: src:libxfixes; Maintainer for src:libxfixes is Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:48:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: patch, security, upstream Found in v ...
Red Hat: CVE-2016-7944
Integer overflow in Xorg libXfixes before 503 on 32-bit platforms might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via a length value of INT_MAX, which triggers the client to stop reading data and get out of sync ...

References

CWE-264CWE-190http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036945http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93361https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.htmlhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GE43MDCRGS4R7MRRZNVSLREHRLU5OHCV/http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/4https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4CE6VJWBMOWLSCH4OP4TAEPIA7NP53ON/http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/2https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfixes/commit/?id=61c1039ee23a2d1de712843bed3480654d7ef42ehttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840442https://nvd.nist.gov
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