Candidate: CVE-2016-7946
PublicDate: 2016-12-13 20:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7946
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/04/4
 https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-October/002720.html
Description:
 X.org libXi before 1.7.7 allows remote X servers to cause a denial of
 service (infinite loop) via vectors involving length fields.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 sbeattie> same commit as CVE-2016-7945
 mdeslaur> possible regression: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98204
Bugs:
 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840440
Priority: low
Discovered-by: Tobias Stoeckmann
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [7.5 HIGH]

Patches_libxi:
 upstream: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXi/commit/?id=19a9cd607de73947fcfb104682f203ffe4e1f4e5
upstream_libxi: released (1.7.7)
precise_libxi: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_libxi: DNE (precise was needed)
trusty_libxi: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_libxi: DNE (trusty was needed)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_libxi: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/ubuntu-core_libxi: DNE
xenial_libxi: ignored (end of standard support, was needed)
esm-infra/xenial_libxi: needed
yakkety_libxi: ignored (reached end-of-life)
zesty_libxi: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_libxi: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_libxi: not-affected (2:1.7.8-1)
cosmic_libxi: not-affected (2:1.7.8-1)
disco_libxi: not-affected (2:1.7.8-1)
eoan_libxi: not-affected (2:1.7.8-1)
focal_libxi: not-affected (2:1.7.8-1)
groovy_libxi: not-affected (2:1.7.8-1)
hirsute_libxi: not-affected (2:1.7.8-1)
impish_libxi: not-affected (2:1.7.8-1)
jammy_libxi: not-affected (2:1.7.8-1)
devel_libxi: not-affected (2:1.7.8-1)