CVE-2016-7943
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 4.4%Published: 12/13/2016Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/libx11from 0, < 1.6.3-r1
- Debian/libx11from 0, < 2:1.6.4-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |