CVE-2017-13723 (GCVE-0-2017-13723)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-10-09 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 19:05
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
In X.Org Server (aka xserver and xorg-server) before 1.19.4, a local attacker authenticated to the X server could overflow a global buffer, causing crashes of the X server or potentially other problems by injecting large or malformed XKB related atoms and accessing them via xkbcomp.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
7 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101253 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-30 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/1… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4000 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2017-O… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Date Public
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"current_release_date": "2026-08-31T09:00:24Z",
"cve": "CVE-2017-13723",
"id": "CVE-2017-13723",
"initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T04:40:18Z",
"product_status:known_affected": "1",
"product_status:known_not_affected": "17",
"product_status:recommended": "261",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2017-13723",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2017-13723.json",
"version": "12"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
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.
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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