CVE-2015-9262
_XcursorThemeInherits in library.c in libXcursor before 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to cause denial of service or potentially code execution via a one-byte heap overflow.
02 Description
_XcursorThemeInherits in library.c in libXcursor before 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to cause denial of service or potentially code execution via a one-byte heap overflow.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 5.67% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 92.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-08-01 23:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 08:43Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-08-01
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- eddac524a16c7c895905a67e3d055e8d2a791f66df088cd63a05b3cb43e1c18b
05 Affected products
06 References
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:3059https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3059
- cgit.freedesktop.orghttps://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXcursor/commit/?id=897213f36baf6926daf6d192c709cf627aa5fd05
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3729-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3729-1/
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:3505https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20180818 [SECURITY] [DLA-1469-1] libxcursor security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00016.html
- bugs.freedesktop.orghttps://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90857
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- libxcursor Fixed in 1:1.1.15-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- libxcursor Fixed in 1:1.1.15-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- libxcursor Fixed in 1:1.1.15-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- libxcursor Fixed in 1:1.1.14-1ubuntu0.14.04.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- libxcursor Fixed in 1:1.1.14-1ubuntu0.16.04.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.