ghsa-8j8v-r4qq-96r9
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Published
2022-05-14 00:55
Modified
2022-05-14 00:55
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details

An issue was discovered in libX11 through 1.6.5. The function XListExtensions in ListExt.c interprets a variable as signed instead of unsigned, resulting in an out-of-bounds write (of up to 128 bytes), leading to DoS or remote code execution.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2018-14600"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-787"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2018-08-24T19:29:00Z",
    "severity": "CRITICAL"
  },
  "details": "An issue was discovered in libX11 through 1.6.5. The function XListExtensions in ListExt.c interprets a variable as signed instead of unsigned, resulting in an out-of-bounds write (of up to 128 bytes), leading to DoS or remote code execution.",
  "id": "GHSA-8j8v-r4qq-96r9",
  "modified": "2022-05-14T00:55:01Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T00:55:01Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14600"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102068"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=dbf72805fd9d7b1846fe9a11b46f3994bfc27fea"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00030.html"
    },
    {
      "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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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
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    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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