CVE-2010-4818 (GCVE-0-2010-4818)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-09-05 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 04:02
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The GLX extension in X.Org xserver 1.7.7 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (server crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a crafted request that triggers a client swap in glx/glxcmdsswap.c; or (2) a crafted length or (3) a negative value in the screen field in a request to glx/glxcmds.c.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28823 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/23/6 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1359.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1360.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/23/4 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/22/7 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit?i… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740954 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit?i… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit?i… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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