CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-10971
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-07-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• x.org x server (<= 1.19.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99546 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=215f894965df5fb0bb45b107d84524e700d2073c Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=8caed4df36b1f802b4992edcfd282cbeeec35d9d Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=ba336b24052122b136486961c82deac76bbde455 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99546 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=215f894965df5fb0bb45b107d84524e700d2073c Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=8caed4df36b1f802b4992edcfd282cbeeec35d9d Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=ba336b24052122b136486961c82deac76bbde455 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory