CVE-2017-10972

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    CVE-2017-10972

    Published: 6 Jul 2017Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    xorg-server-1.19.3
    xorg-server-1.19.2
    xorg-server-1.19.1
    xorg-server-1.19.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High