CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-7942

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2016-12-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-12-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-264, CWE-787

Description

The XGetImage function in X.org libX11 before 1.6.4 might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via vectors involving image type and geometry, which triggers out-of-bounds read operations.

Affected configurations

• fedoraproject fedora 25 • x.org libx11 (<= 1.6.3)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References