CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-14598
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-08-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
An issue was discovered in XListExtensions in ListExt.c in libX11 through 1.6.5. A malicious server can send a reply in which the first string overflows, causing a variable to be set to NULL that will be freed later on, leading to DoS (segmentation fault).
Affected configurations
• x.org libx11 (<= 1.6.5)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• debian debian linux 8.0
• fedoraproject fedora 28
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/21/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105177 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041543 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102073 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=e83722768fd5c467ef61fa159e8c6278770b45c2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00030.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YGARUV66TS5OOSLR5A76BUB7SDV6GO4F/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2018-August/002916.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-2/ Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/21/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105177 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041543 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102073 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=e83722768fd5c467ef61fa159e8c6278770b45c2 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00030.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YGARUV66TS5OOSLR5A76BUB7SDV6GO4F/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2018-August/002916.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-2/ Third Party Advisory