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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2016-20037 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (xwpe), 4 status rows across 4 suites (bookworm, bullseye, sid, trixie): undetermined 4.
xwpe 1.5.30a-2.1 and prior contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying overly long input strings that exceed buffer boundaries. Attackers can craft malicious command-line arguments with 262 bytes of junk data followed by shellcode to overwrite the instruction pointer and achieve code execution or denial of service.