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CVE-2017-16612 libXcursor: heap overflows when parsing malicious files
From: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb () laas fr>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:52:26 +0100
Hi, X.Org has just release libXcursor version 1.1.15 which contains the following security fix: Author: Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias () stoeckmann org> AuthorDate: Sat Oct 21 23:47:52 2017 +0200 Commit: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu () herrb eu> CommitDate: Sat Nov 25 11:52:34 2017 +0100 Fix heap overflows when parsing malicious files. (CVE-2017-16612) It is possible to trigger heap overflows due to an integer overflow while parsing images and a signedness issue while parsing comments. The integer overflow occurs because the chosen limit 0x10000 for dimensions is too large for 32 bit systems, because each pixel takes 4 bytes. Properly chosen values allow an overflow which in turn will lead to less allocated memory than needed for subsequent reads. The signedness bug is triggered by reading the length of a comment as unsigned int, but casting it to int when calling the function XcursorCommentCreate. Turning length into a negative value allows the check against XCURSOR_COMMENT_MAX_LEN to pass, and the following addition of sizeof (XcursorComment) + 1 makes it possible to allocate less memory than needed for subsequent reads. https://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-xorg-announce&m=151188036018262&w=2 -- Matthieu Herrb
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