Link Following Affecting libxfont package, versions <1:2.0.1-3+deb9u2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (6th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-LIBXFONT-313105
- published 1 Dec 2017
- disclosed 1 Dec 2017
Introduced: 1 Dec 2017
CVE-2017-16611 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
libxfont
to version 1:2.0.1-3+deb9u2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxfont
package and not the libxfont
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
In libXfont before 1.5.4 and libXfont2 before 2.0.3, a local attacker can open (but not read) files on the system as root, triggering tape rewinds, watchdogs, or similar mechanisms that can be triggered by opening files.
References
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050459
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16611
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16611
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-10
- https://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-xorg-announce&m=151188044218304&w=2
- https://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-xorg-announce&m=151188049718337&w=2
- http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=155
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/28/7
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-16611
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3500-1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00028.html