CVE-2017-12176
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-01-24 15:00
Modified
2024-09-16 17:43
Severity ?
Summary
xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 was missing extra length validation in ProcEstablishConnection function allowing malicious X client to cause X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1509214Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=b747da5e25be944337a9cd1415506fc06b70aa81Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00032.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-05Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4000Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1509214Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=b747da5e25be944337a9cd1415506fc06b70aa81Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00032.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-05Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4000Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
The X.Org Foundation xorg-x11-server Version: before 1.19.5
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