Ubuntu: USN-5437-1 (CVE-2016-7944): libXfixes vulnerability
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(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
12/13/2016
05/26/2022
05/24/2022
05/24/2022
Description
Integer overflow in X.org libXfixes before 5.0.3 on 32-bit platforms might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via a length value of INT_MAX, which triggers the client to stop reading data and get out of sync.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-libxfixes3
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