CVE-2017-10972

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-10972
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-07-06 11:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionUninitialized data in endianness conversion in the XEvent handling of the X.Org X Server before 2017-06-19 allowed authenticated malicious users to access potentially privileged data from the X server.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-665

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application X.org Xorg-server All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
xorg/xserver - X server (mirrored from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver) MISC cgit.freedesktop.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3905-1 xorg-server DEBIAN www.debian.org
Bug 1035283 – VUL-0: CVE-2017-10971 CVE-2017-10972: xorg-x11-server: various overflows in event processor MISC bugzilla.suse.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
X.Org X Server CVE-2017-10972 Information Disclosure Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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