Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-7943: libx11 Insufficient validation of server responses in XGetImage() and FontNames
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
12/13/2016
07/25/2018
09/20/2017
11/08/2023
Description
The XListFonts function in X.org libX11 before 1.6.4 might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via vectors involving length fields, which trigger out-of-bounds write operations.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-libx11
- alpine-linux-upgrade-libxfixes
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