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libxi — security advisory
An out-of-bounds read in libXi's XI2 class parser in libXi before 1.8.4 could be used by malicious X servers to crash an attached X client.
- Products
- libxi
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.8.4-r0
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-93543
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 06:40 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An out-of-bounds read in libXi's XI2 class parser in libXi before 1.8.4 could be used by malicious X servers to crash an attached X client.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2026-93543
libxi
Fixed versions: 1.8.4-r0
Complete source record
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