CVE-2017-12179

N/A

Description

xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 was vulnerable to integer overflow in (S)ProcXIBarrierReleasePointer functions 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-190

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1509220(secalert@redhat.com)

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=d088e3c1286b548a58e62afdc70bb40981cdb9e8(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=1509220(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=d088e3c1286b548a58e62afdc70bb40981cdb9e8(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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