CVE-2017-12178

N/A

Description

xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 had wrong extra length check in ProcXIChangeHierarchy function allowing malicious X client to cause X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published1/24/2018

Last Modified8/29/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

debian:debian_linuxx.org:x_server

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-391CWE-20

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1509219(secalert@redhat.com)

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=859b08d523307eebde7724fd1a0789c44813e821(secalert@redhat.com)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00032.html(secalert@redhat.com)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-05(secalert@redhat.com)

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4000(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1509219(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=859b08d523307eebde7724fd1a0789c44813e821(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00032.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-05(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4000(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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