CVE-2017-10971
N/A
Published: July 6, 2017 at 11:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:01 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorX server
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
Description
In the X.Org X server before 2017-06-19, a user authenticated to an X Session could crash or execute code in the context of the X Server by exploiting a stack overflow in the endianness conversion of X Events.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (6)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3905VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99546x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=215f894965df5fb0bb45b107d84524e700d2073cx_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=8caed4df36b1f802b4992edcfd282cbeeec35d9dx_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=ba336b24052122b136486961c82deac76bbde455Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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