Vulnerability CVE-2016-10164
Published: 2017-02-01

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-787

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Libxpm project -> 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
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXpm/commit/?id=d1167418f0fd02a27f617ec5afd6db053afbe185
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2016-December/058537.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-72
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