ALPINE-CVE-2016-7944

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Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-7944
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2016-7944.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2016-7944
Upstream
Published
2016-12-13T20:59:08Z
Modified
2025-09-30T05:04:30.763378Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.2 / libxfixes

Package

Name
libxfixes
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libxfixes?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.0.1-r1

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.3-r0
4.0.4-r0
4.0.4-r1
4.0.5-r0
4.0.5-r1

5.*

5.0-r0
5.0-r1
5.0-r2
5.0.1-r0

Alpine:v3.3 / libxfixes

Package

Name
libxfixes
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libxfixes?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.0.1-r2

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.3-r0
4.0.4-r0
4.0.4-r1
4.0.5-r0
4.0.5-r1

5.*

5.0-r0
5.0-r1
5.0-r2
5.0.1-r0
5.0.1-r1