CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-12185

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2018-01-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-01-24
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-391

Description

xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 was missing length validation in MIT-SCREEN-SAVER extension allowing malicious X client to cause X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Affected configurations

• debian debian linux 8.0 • debian debian linux 9.0 • x.org x server (< 1.19.5)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References