CVE-2017-16611

At a glance

Severity: Not available
EPSS: EPSS 0.42 % · percentile 36 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2017-12-01
Updated: 2024-08-05
Assigner: mitre
NVD status: Modified

Description

In libXfont before 1.5.4 and libXfont2 before 2.0.3, a local attacker can open (but not read) files on the system as root, triggering tape rewinds, watchdogs, or similar mechanisms that can be triggered by opening files.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 4.9	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-59

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2017-7802
GCVE · GCVE-0-2017-16611

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2022-AVI-267 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Juniper Networks Junos Space · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 1.0.0 < 1.5.4
cpe:2.3:a:x:libxfont:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 2.0.0 < 2.0.3

Affected products

Product	Versions
	affected n/a

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD