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CVE-2017-10972

Uninitialized 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.

Published

2017-07-06T11:29:00.273

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 6.5 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

8.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-665

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	x.org	xorg-server	≤ 1.19.3	Yes

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99543 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99543 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)