High
Security advisory
libXcursor before 1.1.15 has various integer overflows that could lead to heap buffer overflows when processing malicious cursors, e.g., with programs like GIMP. It is also possible that an attack vector exists against the related code in cursor/xcursor.c in Wayland through 1.14.0.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-16612
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:53 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
libXcursor before 1.1.15 has various integer overflows that could lead to heap buffer overflows when processing malicious cursors, e.g., with programs like GIMP. It is also possible that an attack vector exists against the related code in cursor/xcursor.c in Wayland through 1.14.0.
osv:CVE-2017-16612
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:48:18.035323480Z",
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"references": [
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"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00002.html",
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"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3622-1/",
"https://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-xorg-announce&m=151188036018262&w=2",
"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-04",
"https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4059",
"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1065386",
"https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXcursor/commit/?id=4794b5dd34688158fb51a2943032569d3780c4b8"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 380269,
"published_at": "2017-12-01T17:29:00.51+00:00"
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