Security advisory

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  "id": "53efa59af2bc6f3ad0c55737ed6732efda2a05f7208f1fb35a5cdeb9ca706ec0",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10164",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-10164",
    "summary": "Multiple integer overflows in libXpm before 3.5.12, when a program requests parsing XPM extensions on a 64-bit platform, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or execute arbitrary code via (1) the number of extensions or (2) their concatenated length in a crafted XPM file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-10164",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-10164",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-10164"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxpm",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "3425cbb0e6086f74783eafbe23df1121b655e006"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:x.org:libxpm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.5.11"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "libXpm-3.5.11",
            "libXpm-3.5.10",
            "libXpm-3.5.9",
            "libXpm-3.5.8",
            "libXpm-3.5.7",
            "libXpm-3.5.6",
            "libXpm-3_5_5",
            "XORG-7_1",
            "XORG-7_0_99_901",
            "XORG-7_0",
            "XORG-6_99_99_904",
            "MODULAR_COPY",
            "XORG-6_99_99_903",
            "XORG-6_99_99_902",
            "XORG-6_99_99_901",
            "XORG-6_8_99_903",
            "XORG-6_8_99_902",
            "XORG-6_8_99_901",
            "XORG-6_99_99_900",
            "XORG-6_8_99_900",
            "XORG-6_8_99_16",
            "XORG-6_8_99_9",
            "XORG-6_8_99_8",
            "XORG-6_8_99_15",
            "XORG-6_8_99_14",
            "XORG-6_8_99_13",
            "XORG-6_8_99_12",
            "XORG-6_8_99_11",
            "XORG-6_8_99_10",
            "sco_port_update-base",
            "XORG-6_8_99_7",
            "XORG-6_8_99_6",
            "XORG-6_8_99_5",
            "XORG-6_8_99_4",
            "XORG-6_8_99_3",
            "XORG-6_8_99_2",
            "XORG-6_8_99_1",
            "rel-0-6-1",
            "lg3d-rel-0-7-0",
            "lg3d-base",
            "XORG-6_8_0",
            "XORG-6_7_99_904",
            "XORG-6_7_99_903",
            "XORG-6_7_99_902",
            "XORG-6_7_99_901",
            "XORG-6_7_99_2",
            "XORG-6_7_99_1",
            "XACE-SELINUX-MERGE",
            "xf86-4_4_99_1",
            "xf86-4_4_0",
            "xf86-4_3_99_903",
            "xf86-4_3_99_903_special",
            "xf86-4_3_99_902",
            "xf86-4_3_99_901",
            "xf86-4_3_99_16",
            "xf86-012804-2330",
            "xf86-4_3_0_1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-10164.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:46:31.562788740Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1865",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-72",
        "https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXpm/commit/?id=d1167418f0fd02a27f617ec5afd6db053afbe185",
        "https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2016-December/058537.html"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-10164",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 379328,
  "published_at": "2017-02-01T15:59:00.13+00:00"
}