Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting wayland package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.55% (78th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-WAYLAND-274249
- published 1 Dec 2017
- disclosed 1 Dec 2017
Introduced: 1 Dec 2017
CVE-2017-16612 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:8
wayland
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wayland
package and not the wayland
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16612
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16612
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4059
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00002.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-04
- https://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-xorg-announce&m=151188036018262&w=2
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1065386
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/commit/?id=5d201df72f3d4f4cb8b8f75f980169b03507da38
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXcursor/commit/?id=4794b5dd34688158fb51a2943032569d3780c4b8
- http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=156
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-November/035979.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/28/6
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-16612
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3622-1/
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3501-1