Critical
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-7951
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:37 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2016-7951
Complete source record
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