CVE-2017-12179
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-01-24 15:00
Modified
2024-09-17 02:01
Severity ?
Summary
xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 was vulnerable to integer overflow in (S)ProcXIBarrierReleasePointer functions 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=1509220Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=d088e3c1286b548a58e62afdc70bb40981cdb9e8Patch, 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=1509220Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=d088e3c1286b548a58e62afdc70bb40981cdb9e8Patch, 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
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