vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2017-16612)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 1, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

It was discovered that libxcursor before 1.1.15 is vulnerable to heap overflows due to an integer overflow while parsing images and a signedness issue while parsing comments. An attacker could use local privileges or trick a user into parsing a malicious file to cause libxcursor to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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