ubuntu · CVE-2016-7943

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Priority: low Published: 2016-12-13 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:11:38 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-7943 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libx11), 8 status rows across 8 suites (artful, bionic, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 4, released 4.

Description:

The XListFonts function in X.org libX11 before 1.6.4 might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via vectors involving length fields, which trigger out-of-bounds write operations.

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