CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-10972
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-07-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-665
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• x.org x server (<= 1.19.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99543 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=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99543 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=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced Patch, Third Party Advisory