CVE-2016-7944
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 0.91%libxfixes - security update
Published: 12/13/2016Modified: 11/19/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2016-7944DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7944
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 packages (3)
- Alpine/libxfixesfrom 0, < 5.0.1-r1
- Debian/libxfixesfrom 0, < 1:5.0.3-1
- Debian/libxfixesfrom 0, < 1:5.0-4+deb7u2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |