CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-13723
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-10-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
In X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.19.4, a local attacker authenticated to the X server could overflow a global buffer, causing crashes of the X server or potentially other problems by injecting large or malformed XKB related atoms and accessing them via xkbcomp.
Affected configurations
• x.org x server (<= 1.19.3)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
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-4000 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/04/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101253 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=94f11ca5cf011ef123bd222cabeaef6f424d76ac Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00032.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2017-October/002808.html Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-30 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4000 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/04/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101253 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=94f11ca5cf011ef123bd222cabeaef6f424d76ac Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00032.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2017-October/002808.html Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-30 Third Party Advisory