CVE-2017-10972

N/A

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published7/6/2017

Last Modified8/29/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

x.org:x_server

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-665

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99543(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283(cve@mitre.org)

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99543(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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