CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-8091

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2014-12-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-12-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

X.Org X Window System (aka X11 and X) X11R5 and X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.16.3, when using SUN-DES-1 (Secure RPC) authentication credentials, does not check the return value of a malloc call, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and server crash) via a crafted connection request.

Affected configurations

• x.org x server (<= 1.16.2) • x.org x11 5.0

References