Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1469-1 libxcursor -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
18 Aug 2018
Affected Packages:
libxcursor
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-9262.
More information:

It was discovered that there was a denial of service or (potentially code execution) vulnerability in libxcursor, a library designed to help locate and load cursors for the X Window System.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this issue has been fixed in libxcursor version 1:1.1.14-1+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxcursor packages.