CVE-2016-10164
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 7.6% (pctl 94)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
Description
Multiple integer overflows in libXpm before 3.5.12, when a program requests parsing XPM extensions on a 64-bit platform, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or execute arbitrary code via (1) the number of extensions or (2) their concatenated length in a crafted XPM file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 7.59% — more likely to be exploited than 94% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-119 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2017-02-01 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| x.org | libxpm |
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3772
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/22/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/25/7
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95785
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1865
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXpm/commit/?id=d1167418f0fd02a27f617ec5afd6db053afbe185
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2016-December/058537.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-72
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3772
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/22/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/25/7
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95785
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1865
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXpm/commit/?id=d1167418f0fd02a27f617ec5afd6db053afbe185
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2016-December/058537.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-72
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