Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-7944

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - 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 INTMAX, which trigger...

RHEL 6 : libxfixes (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - libXfixes: Insufficient validation of server responses results in Integer overflow CVE-2016-7944 Note that Nessus h...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-654-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : libXfixes vulnerability (USN-5437-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5437-1 advisory. Tobias Stoeckmann discovered that libXfixes incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibl...

Slackware: Security Advisory (SSA:2016-305-02)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2018-0011)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2016:2505-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.6.0 : libXfixes (EulerOS-SA-2020-2045)

According to the version of the libXfixes package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - Integer overflow in X.org libXfixes before 5.0.3 on 32-bit platforms might allow remote X servers to gain privileges vi...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for libXfixes (EulerOS-SA-2019-2481)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

MGASA-2018-0011 Updated X11 client libraries packages fix security vulnerability

The XvQueryAdaptors and XvQueryEncodings functions in X.org libXv before 1.0.11 allow remote X servers to trigger out-of-bounds memory access operations via vectors involving length specifications in received data CVE-2016-5407. The XGetImage function in X.org libX11 before 1.6.4 might allow remo...

GLSA-201704-03 : X.Org: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201704-03 X.Org: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in X.Org server and libraries. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A local or remote users can utilize th...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xorg-x11-libXfixes (SUSE-SU-2016:3172-1)

This update for xorg-x11-libXfixes fixes the following issues : - insufficient validation of data from the X server can cause an integer overflow on 32 bit architectures bsc1002995, CVE-2016-7944 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SU...

CVE-2016-7944

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 INTMAX, which triggers the client to stop reading data and get out of sync...

CVE-2016-7944

CVE-2016-7944 : X.Org libXfixes before 5.0.3 on 32-bit platforms has an integer overflow in a length field (INT_MAX) that can cause a remote X server to desynchronize the client, potentially enabling privilege escalation or arbitrary code execution. Affected systems require upgrading to libXfixes...

CVE-2016-7944

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 INTMAX, which triggers the client to stop reading data and get out of sync...

openSUSE Security Update : libXfixes (openSUSE-2016-1429)

This update for libXfixes fixes a security issue : - insufficient validation of data from the X server could cause an integer overflow on 32 bit architectures boo1002995, CVE-2016-7944. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin wer...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : X Window System client libraries (SUSE-SU-2016:2828-1)

This update for the X Window System client libraries fixes a class of privilege escalation issues. A malicious X Server could send specially crafted data to X clients, which allowed for triggering crashes, or privilege escalation if this relationship was untrusted or crossed user or permission...

Fedora Update for libXfixes FEDORA-2016-ff5a2f4839

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora 24 : libXfixes (2016-ff5a2f4839)

Security fix for CVE-2016-7944 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300...