CVE-2017-16612

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-16612
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-12-01 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-04-11 01:29:00 UTC
DescriptionlibXcursor before 1.1.15 has various integer overflows that could lead to heap buffer overflows when processing malicious cursors, e.g., with programs like GIMP. It is also possible that an attack vector exists against the related code in cursor/xcursor.c in Wayland through 1.14.0.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application X Libxcursor All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug 1065386 – VUL-0: CVE-2017-16612: libXcursor: heap overflows when parsing malicious files CONFIRM bugzilla.suse.com Issue Tracking, Tool Signature, VDB Entry
wayland/wayland - Wayland Compositor Infrastructure (mirrored from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland) MISC cgit.freedesktop.org
'[ANNOUNCE] libXcursor 1.1.15' - MARC MLIST marc.info Third Party Advisory
oss-security - CVE-2017-16612 libXcursor: heap overflows when parsing malicious files MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CLD-156 Details CONFIRM security.cucumberlinux.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
USN-3501-1: libxcursor vulnerability | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1201-1] libxcursor security update MLIST lists.debian.org
USN-3622-1: Wayland vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
LibXcursor: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code (GLSA 201801-04) — Gentoo Security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
libwayland-cursor heap overflow fix MISC lists.freedesktop.org
xorg/lib/libXcursor - X.org libXcursor library. (mirrored from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxcursor) CONFIRM cgit.freedesktop.org Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4059-1 libxcursor DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500337 Alpine Linux Security Update for libxcursor
  • 504101 Alpine Linux Security Update for libxcursor
  • 710238 Gentoo Linux LibXcursor User-assisted execution of arbitrary code Vulnerability (GLSA 201801-04)
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