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CVE-2016-7944

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-12-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in X.org libXfixes before 5.0.3 on 32-bit platforms might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via a length value of INT_MAX, which triggers the client to stop reading data and get out of sync.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 24, 25
• X.Org Libxfixes: through 5.0.2

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93361
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036945
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfixes/commit/?id=61c1039ee23a2d1de712843bed3480654d7ef42e
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4CE6VJWBMOWLSCH4OP4TAEPIA7NP53ON/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GE43MDCRGS4R7MRRZNVSLREHRLU5OHCV/
• https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93361

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