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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-16612: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 1, 2017
Added
Feb 21, 2018
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

libXcursor 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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-libxcursor
Title
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