CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-14599

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2018-08-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-08-24
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/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-193

Description

An issue was discovered in libX11 through 1.6.5. The function XListExtensions in ListExt.c is vulnerable to an off-by-one error caused by malicious server responses, leading to DoS or possibly unspecified other impact.

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 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-193 Off-by-one Error weakness

References