Information Exposure Affecting xorg-server package, versions [,1.16.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.72% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XORGSERVER-2371828
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Feb 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Feb 2015

CVE-2015-0255  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xorg-server to version 1.16.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.16.3 and 1.17.x before 1.17.1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted string length value in a XkbSetGeometry request.

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