Out-of-Bounds Affecting xorg-server package, versions <2:1.19.4-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-XORGSERVER-1564644
  • published10 Oct 2017
  • disclosed10 Oct 2017

Introduced: 10 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-13723  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 xorg-server to version 2:1.19.4-1 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

In X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.19.4, a local attacker authenticated to the X server could overflow a global buffer, causing crashes of the X server or potentially other problems by injecting large or malformed XKB related atoms and accessing them via xkbcomp.