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LIN8-5258 : Security Advisory - libx11 - CVE-2016-7943

Created: Dec 15, 2016 Updated: Dec 3, 2018

Resolved Date: Jan 11, 2017

Found In Version: 8.0.0.11

Fix Version: 8.0.0.14

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8

Component/s: Userspace

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.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-7943

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CVE-2016-7943