CVSS 3.0
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2015-9262
_XcursorThemeInherits in library.c in libXcursor before 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to cause denial of service or potentially code execution via a one-byte heap overflow.
Severity
- EPSS
- 5.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 92% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- redhat:ansible_tower
- redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server
- redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation
- x:libxcursor
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3059
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90857
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXcursor/commit/?id=897213f36baf6926daf6d192c709cf627aa5fd05
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00016.html