vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-16612: libxcursor, wayland -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 29, 2017
Added
Dec 10, 2017
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

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.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-libxcursordebian-upgrade-wayland
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