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Message-ID: <20171128145226.GH6762@timmy.laas.fr>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:52:26 +0100
From: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb@...s.fr>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE-2017-16612 libXcursor: heap overflows when parsing malicious
 files

Hi,

X.Org has just release libXcursor version 1.1.15 which contains the
following security fix:

Author:     Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias@...eckmann.org>
AuthorDate: Sat Oct 21 23:47:52 2017 +0200
Commit:     Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@...rb.eu>
CommitDate: Sat Nov 25 11:52:34 2017 +0100

    Fix heap overflows when parsing malicious files. (CVE-2017-16612)

    It is possible to trigger heap overflows due to an integer overflow
    while parsing images and a signedness issue while parsing comments.

    The integer overflow occurs because the chosen limit 0x10000 for
    dimensions is too large for 32 bit systems, because each pixel takes
    4 bytes. Properly chosen values allow an overflow which in turn will
    lead to less allocated memory than needed for subsequent reads.

    The signedness bug is triggered by reading the length of a comment
    as unsigned int, but casting it to int when calling the function
    XcursorCommentCreate. Turning length into a negative value allows the
    check against XCURSOR_COMMENT_MAX_LEN to pass, and the following
    addition of sizeof (XcursorComment) + 1 makes it possible to allocate
    less memory than needed for subsequent reads.

https://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-xorg-announce&m=151188036018262&w=2
-- 
Matthieu Herrb

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