suse · CVE-2017-16611

Quick triage

Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 14:04:08 UTC Updated: 2026-04-17 15:50:39 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2017-16611 severity moderate: SUSE including 257 source package names (amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20210304-hvm-ssd-x86_64, amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20220127-hvm-ssd-x86_64, …), 449 product×package rows across 50 product lines (SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, SUSE CaaS Platform 4.5, … (50 product lines)): Known Affected 231, Known Not Affected 164, Fixed 54.

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.

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