Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting wayland package, versions <1.14.0-2
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- published1 Dec 2017
- disclosed1 Dec 2017
Introduced: 1 Dec 2017
CVE-2017-16612 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable wayland to version 1.14.0-2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wayland package and not the wayland package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16612
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16612
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4059
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00002.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-04
- https://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-xorg-announce&m=151188036018262&w=2
- 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
- http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=156
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-November/035979.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/28/6
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-16612
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3622-1/
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3501-1