CVE-2017-12185
xorg-x11-server before 1.19.5 was missing length validation in MIT-SCREEN-SAVER extension allowing malicious X client to cause X server to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2018-01-24
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20, CWE-391
Affected products
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1509215
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=cad5a1050b7184d828aef9c1dd151c3ab649d37e
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00032.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4000
