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CVE-2013-1997

N/A
Published: June 15, 2013 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLIBX11

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in X.org libX11 1.5.99.901 (1.6 RC1) and earlier allow X servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted length or index values to the (1) XAllocColorCells, (2) _XkbReadGetDeviceInfoReply, (3) _XkbReadGeomShapes, (4) _XkbReadGetGeometryReply, (5) _XkbReadKeySyms, (6) _XkbReadKeyActions, (7) _XkbReadKeyBehaviors, (8) _XkbReadModifierMap, (9) _XkbReadExplicitComponents, (10) _XkbReadVirtualModMap, (11) _XkbReadGetNamesReply, (12) _XkbReadGetMapReply, (13) _XimXGetReadData, (14) XListFonts, (15) XListExtensions, and (16) XGetFontPath functions.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

LIBX11· X
95%
v ≤ 1.5.99.9011.5.0

References (5)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106781.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2693
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/23/3
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Source: [email protected]
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1854-1
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Advisory-2013-05-23

CVSS

6.8MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119

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