Access Restriction Bypass Affecting xorg-server package, versions [,1.19.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XORGSERVER-2371806
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Jul 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-10972  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xorg-server to version 1.19.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. 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.

CVSS Scores

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