CVE-2017-10972 | BDVDB-2026-87353 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99543
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489ced
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12017-07-06Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-05Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.