Off-by-one Error The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libx11  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-LIBX11-339156
  • published25 Sept 2018
  • disclosed24 Aug 2018

Introduced: 24 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-14599  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-193  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libx11 package and not the libx11 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

An issue was discovered in libX11 through 1.6.5. The function XListExtensions in ListExt.c is vulnerable to an off-by-one error caused by malicious server responses, leading to DoS or possibly unspecified other impact.