CVE-2016-7952 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in X.org libXtst versions prior to 1.2.3, affecting products like Fedora. A remote X server can trigger an infinite loop by sending specific malformed replies within the XRecordStartOfData, XRecordEndOfData, or XRecordClientDied categories. This vulnerability carries a CVSS v3 score of 7.5 (High), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity to achieve high availability impact. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has received some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
24CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
25CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:25:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:x.org:libxtst:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.