CVE-2017-10972
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-07-06 11:00
Modified
2024-08-05 17:57
Severity ?
Summary
Uninitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling of the X.Org X Server before 2017-06-19 allowed authenticated malicious users to access potentially privileged data from the X server.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99543Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489cedPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99543Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489cedPatch, Third Party Advisory
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