Out-of-Bounds Affecting xorg-server package, versions [,1.19.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.9% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XORGSERVER-2371822
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Jul 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-10971  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (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 Out-of-Bounds. In the X.Org X server before 2017-06-19, a user authenticated to an X Session could crash or execute code in the context of the X Server by exploiting a stack overflow in the endianness conversion of X Events.

CVSS Scores

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