CVE-2012-1699

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-1699
StatePUBLISHED
Assigneroracle
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-12-21 05:46:15 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe ProcSetEventMask function in difs/events.c in the xfs font server for X.Org X11R6 through X11R6.6 and XFree86 before 3.3.3 calls the SendErrToClient function with a mask value instead of a pointer, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) or obtain potentially sensitive information from memory via a SetEventMask request that triggers an invalid pointer dereference.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 3.6 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application X X.org X11 6.0 All All All
Application X X.org X11 6.1 All All All
Application X X.org X11 6.3 All All All
Application X X.org X11 6.4 All All All
Application X X.org X11 6.5.1 All All All
Application X X.org X11 6.6 All All All
Application Xfree86 Xfree86 All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
842841 – (CVE-2012-1699) CVE-2012-1699 xorg-x11: DoS and information leak in xfs prior to X11R6.7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
ANSI-fication revisited for CVE-2012-1699 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 invisible-island.net
X.Org security advisory: DoS/info leak in xfs prior to X11R6.7/XFree86 3.3.3 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.freedesktop.org
CVE-2012-1699 Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in X.Org (Third Party Vulnerability Resolution Blog) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blogs.oracle.com
Rodrigo Branco na Twitterze: "CVE-2012-1699 finally released by Oracle. Solaris 9 http://t.co/96ysMsHm full memleak" af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 twitter.com
'[security bulletin] HPSBUX02829 SSRT100883 rev.1 - HP-UX Running X Font Server (xfs) Software, Local' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
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