ghsa-8crp-qc6q-x3mh
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-14 00:55
Modified
2022-05-14 00:55
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

An issue was discovered in XListExtensions in ListExt.c in libX11 through 1.6.5. A malicious server can send a reply in which the first string overflows, causing a variable to be set to NULL that will be freed later on, leading to DoS (segmentation fault).

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2018-14598"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-20"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2018-08-24T19:29:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "An issue was discovered in XListExtensions in ListExt.c in libX11 through 1.6.5. A malicious server can send a reply in which the first string overflows, causing a variable to be set to NULL that will be freed later on, leading to DoS (segmentation fault).",
  "id": "GHSA-8crp-qc6q-x3mh",
  "modified": "2022-05-14T00:55:01Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T00:55:01Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14598"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102073"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=e83722768fd5c467ef61fa159e8c6278770b45c2"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00030.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YGARUV66TS5OOSLR5A76BUB7SDV6GO4F"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2018-August/002916.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-01"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3758-2"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/08/21/6"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105177"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041543"
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      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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