CVE-2015-9262 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Libxcursor

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow8 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
3.0%
top 13.30%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
7
X LibxcursorCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Linux+4 more
Timeline
PublishedAug 1
Latest updateMay 14

Description

_XcursorThemeInherits in library.c in libXcursor before 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to cause denial of service or potentially code execution via a one-byte heap overflow.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages5 packages

▶NVDx/libxcursor< 1.1.15

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04

Patches

Patch: bugs.freedesktop.org ↗Patch: cgit.freedesktop.org ↗Patch: bugs.freedesktop.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-3786-whr3-7xmw: _XcursorThemeInherits in library↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2015-9262: _XcursorThemeInherits in library↗2018-08-01
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CVEList
CVE-2015-9262: _XcursorThemeInherits in library↗2018-08-01
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
libxcursor vulnerability↗2018-08-06
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Red Hat
libxcursor: 1-byte heap-based overflow in _XcursorThemeInherits function in library.c↗2018-08-01
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Debian
CVE-2015-9262: libxcursor - _XcursorThemeInherits in library.c in libXcursor before 1.1.15 allows remote att...↗2015
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-9262 libxcursor: 1-byte heap-based overflow in _XcursorThemeInherits function in library.c↗2018-08-02
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CVE-2015-9262 — X Libxcursor vulnerability | cvebase