CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-7952

7.5 HIGH 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])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-284

Description

X.org libXtst before 1.2.3 allows remote X servers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a reply in the (1) XRecordStartOfData, (2) XRecordEndOfData, or (3) XRecordClientDied category without a client sequence and with attached data.

Affected configurations

• fedoraproject fedora 24 • fedoraproject fedora 25 • x.org libxtst (<= 1.2.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References