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CVE-2016-7943

CVE-2016-7943

EPSS 4.5%
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.
Affected products
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References
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=8c29f1607a31dac0911e45a0dd3d74173822b3c9https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GMCVDXMFPXR7QGMKDG22WPPJCXH2X3L7/https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-03https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-1/https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-2/http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/2http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/4http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93362http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036945