Vulnerabilites related to x.org - libxfixes
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2016-12-13 20:59
Modified
2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
Summary
Integer overflow in X.org libXfixes before 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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| x.org | libxfixes | * | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 24 | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 25 |
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CVE-2016-7944 (GCVE-0-2016-7944)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-12-13 20:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:13
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
Integer overflow in X.org libXfixes before 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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