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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-686-1 libxtst -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

26 Oct 2016

Affected Packages:

libxtst

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 840444.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-7951, CVE-2016-7952.

More information:

Tobias Stoeckmann from the OpenBSD project discovered the following vulnerability in libXtst, the X Record extension:

Insufficient validation of data from the X server can cause out of boundary memory access or endless loops (Denial of Service).

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 2:1.2.1-1+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxtst packages.

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