ubuntu · CVE-2016-7952

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Priority: low Published: 2016-12-13 20:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-18 17:05:47 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-7952 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libxtst), 23 status rows across 23 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 17, ignored 4, DNE 1, needed 1.

Description:

X.org libXtst before 1.2.3 allows remote X servers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a reply in the (1) XRecordStartOfData, (2) XRecordEndOfData, or (3) XRecordClientDied category without a client sequence and with attached data.

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