Critical severity · published Aug 1, 2018
CVE-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
9.8
CVSS
5.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
_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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.7% · higher than 93% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AT
Ansible Tower · Redhat
3.3 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Desktop · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Workstation · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
LI
Libxcursor · X
before 1.1.15 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
14.04; 16.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-9262
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-9262
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3059
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505
Patch
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90857
Patch
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXcursor/commit/?id=897213f36baf6926daf6d192c709cf627aa5fd05
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00016.html
Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3729-1/
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