CVE-2016-10164

9.8 criticalEPSS 7.6%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 7.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-119, CWE-190, CWE-787
Published: 2017-02-01
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

x.org:libxpm

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3772
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/22/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/25/7
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95785
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1865

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