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GSD-2016-7943

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
Details
The XListFonts function in X.org libX11 before 1.6.4 might allow remote X servers to gain privileges via vectors involving length fields, which trigger out-of-bounds write operations.
Aliases
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