vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2017-16611: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 29, 2017
Added
May 20, 2018
Modified
Feb 22, 2022

Description

In libXfont before 1.5.4 and libXfont2 before 2.0.3, a local attacker can open (but not read) files on the system as root, triggering tape rewinds, watchdogs, or similar mechanisms that can be triggered by opening files.

Solution(s)

suse-upgrade-libxfont-develsuse-upgrade-libxfont1suse-upgrade-libxfont2-2suse-upgrade-libxfont2-devel
Title
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