Improper Initialization The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package xorg  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1704-XORG-618243
  • published6 Jul 2017
  • disclosed6 Jul 2017

Introduced: 6 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-10972  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-665  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.04.

NVD Description

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

Uninitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling of the X.Org X Server before 2017-06-19 allowed authenticated malicious users to access potentially privileged data from the X server.