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Alpine Linux: CVE-2013-1983: libXfixes <= 5.0 CVE-2013-1983

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/15/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
09/22/2017

Description

Integer overflow in X.org libXfixes 5.0 and earlier allows X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer overflow via vectors related to the XFixesGetCursorImage function.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libxfixes

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