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Improper Privilege Management Affecting xorg-server package, versions <1.19.5-r0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE320-XORGSERVER-7015417
  • published 23 May 2024
  • disclosed 10 Oct 2017
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Introduced: 10 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-13721 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-269 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.20 xorg-server to version 1.19.5-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xorg-server package and not the xorg-server package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.

In X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.19.4, an attacker authenticated to an X server with the X shared memory extension enabled can cause aborts of the X server or replace shared memory segments of other X clients in the same session.