UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7951

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7951
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7951.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7951
Upstream
Published
2016-12-13T20:59:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:45:55Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
Details

Multiple integer overflows in X.org libXtst before 1.2.3 allow remote X servers to trigger out-of-bounds memory access operations by leveraging the lack of range checks.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / libxtst

Package

Name
libxtst
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libxtst@2:1.2.2-1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2:1.*

2:1.2.2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libxtst-dev",
            "binary_version": "2:1.2.2-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libxtst6",
            "binary_version": "2:1.2.2-1"
        }
    ]
}