PT-2015-4546 · X.Org+5 · X.Org Server+5

Olivier Fourdan · Published 2015-02-10 · Updated 2025-08-29 · CVE-2015-0255

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions X.Org Server versions prior to 1.16.3 X.Org Server versions 1.17.x prior to 1.17.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service via a crafted string length value in a XkbSetGeometry request.

Recommendations For X.Org Server versions prior to 1.16.3, update to version 1.16.3 or later. For X.Org Server versions 1.17.x prior to 1.17.1, update to version 1.17.1 or later.

Fix

DoS

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1154

CESA-2015_0797

CVE-2015-0255

DLA-218-1

DSA-3160-1

MGASA-2015-0073

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10056-1

RHSA-2015:0797

RHSA-2015_0797

SUSE-SU-2015:0398-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0399-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0400-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0401-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0402-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0403-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0427-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0939-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1025-1

SUSE-SU-2015_0398-1

SUSE-SU-2015_0399-1

SUSE-SU-2015_0400-1

SUSE-SU-2015_0401-1

SUSE-SU-2015_0402-1

SUSE-SU-2015_0403-1

SUSE-SU-2015_0427-1

SUSE-SU-2015_0939-1

USN-2500-1

USN-4772-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

X.Org Server

References · 111

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0255 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2015:0398-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2500-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-06584 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09279 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09283 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6424 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2015:0939-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2015:0401-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-06604 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-0255 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-0255 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2500-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3418 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-06595 · Security Note