Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-10164

Title: X.Org Libxpm RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-10164.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Feb 01, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

6.33%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-10164: Multiple integer overflows in libXpm before 3.5.12, when a program requests parsing XPM extensions on a 64-bit platform, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or execute arbitrary code via (1) the number of extensions or (2) their concatenated length in a crafted XPM file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Impacted Vendors

x.org 1

Reference Links

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3772 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/22/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/25/7 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95785 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1865 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXpm/commit/?id=d1167418f0fd02a27f617ec5afd6db053afbe185 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2016-December/058537.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-72 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3772 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/22/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/25/7 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95785 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1865 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXpm/commit/?id=d1167418f0fd02a27f617ec5afd6db053afbe185 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2016-December/058537.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-72

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns