CVE-2017-7960

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Severity

Medium · CVSS 4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Published

Apr 16, 2017, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Updated

Jun 29, 2026, 1:51:14 PM UTC

Source

[NVD] · [CVE record]

EPSS

2.00% · Oct 25, 2026

It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly accessing data structures when reading bytes from memory, which could cause a heap buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-7960) It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly handling invalid UTF-8 values when processing CSS files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-8834, CVE-2017-8871) It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly implementing recursion in one of its parsing functions, which could cause an infinite recursion loop and a stack overflow due to stack consumption. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-12825)