CVE-2017-10972
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 2%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (4)
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/99543x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035283x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=05442de962d3dc624f79fc1a00eca3ffc5489cedQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-665
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