ubuntu · CVE-2016-20037

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Priority: medium Published: 2026-03-28 12:15:00 UTC Updated: 2026-04-01 04:16:04 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-20037 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (xwpe), 7 status rows across 7 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, questing, upstream, xenial): needs-triage 7.

Description:

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.

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