CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-7944

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-190, CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• x.org libxfixes (<= 5.0.2) • fedoraproject fedora 24 • fedoraproject fedora 25

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

References