ubuntu · CVE-2017-16612

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-11-28 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:27:49 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2017-16612 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (libxcursor, wayland), 10 status rows across 5 suites (artful, trusty, upstream, xenial, zesty): released 7, needs-triage 2, ignored 1.

Description:

libXcursor before 1.1.15 has various integer overflows that could lead to heap buffer overflows when processing malicious cursors, e.g., with programs like GIMP. It is also possible that an attack vector exists against the related code in cursor/xcursor.c in Wayland through 1.14.0.

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