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CVE-2015-9262

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-08-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

_XcursorThemeInherits in library.c in libXcursor before 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to cause denial of service or potentially code execution via a one-byte heap overflow.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Tower: 3.3
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
• X Libxcursor: before 1.1.15 — fixed in 1.1.15

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: X Libxcursor 1.1.15. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3059
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90857
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXcursor/commit/?id=897213f36baf6926daf6d192c709cf627aa5fd05
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00016.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3729-1/
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3059
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90857
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXcursor/commit/?id=897213f36baf6926daf6d192c709cf627aa5fd05
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00016.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3729-1/

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