VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-7942

critical
Published 2016-12-13 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

The XGetImage function in X.org libX11 before 1.6.4 might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via vectors involving image type and geometry, which triggers out-of-bounds read operations.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
fedora Fedora Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
25 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2:1.6.4-1
sid Fixed 2:1.6.4-1
forky Fixed 2:1.6.4-1
bullseye Fixed 2:1.6.4-1
bookworm Fixed 2:1.6.4-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
x.orglibx11{"endIncluding":"1.6.3"}

References

CWEs

CWE-264 CWE-787

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.