vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-5437-1 (CVE-2016-7944): libXfixes vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 13, 2016
Added
May 24, 2022
Modified
Apr 14, 2025

Description

Tobias Stoeckmann discovered that libXfixes incorrectly handled certain
inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libxfixes3
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