Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-16612

Title: X Libxcursor Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-16612.

CWE Category CWE-190

Published Date Dec 01, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.68%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-16612: 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.

Impacted Vendors

x 1

Reference Links

http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=156 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/28/6 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3501-1 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 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00002.html https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-November/035979.html https://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-xorg-announce&m=151188036018262&w=2 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-04 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3622-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4059 http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=156 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/28/6 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3501-1 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 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00002.html https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-November/035979.html https://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-xorg-announce&m=151188036018262&w=2 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-04 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3622-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4059

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

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:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns